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MUNSTER, 1 mile (S.E.) from Fethard; containing 380
inhabitants. This parish comprises, according to the
county assessment, 1984 statute acres, and contains
part of the extensive demesne of Grove, the seat of W.
Barton, Esq., of Fethard. It is a rectory, in the diocese
of Cashel, entirely impropriate in Caesar Sutton, Esq.:
the tithes amount to £72. 19.
COOLOCK, a parish, in the barony of COOLOCK,
county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 3¾ miles
(N. N. E.) from Dublin, on the road to Malahide; con-
taining 914 inhabitants, of which number, 190 are in the
village, which contains 26 houses, and is a constabulary
police station. The parish comprises 1691 statute acres,
as applotted under the tithe act: the soil is fertile, and
well adapted for corn. Limestone abounds, and a quarry
near the glebe-house is worked for agricultural and
other purposes. There are numerous handsome seats
and pleasant villas, from most of which are fine views of
the bay and city of Dublin, with the adjacent country.
Of these the principal are Beaumont, the residence of
A. Guinness, Esq.; Newbrook, of E. H. Casey, Esq.;
Belcamp, of Sir H. M. J. W. Jervis, Bart.; Brookeville,
of R. Law, Esq.; Coolock House, of H. Brooke, Esq.;
Coolock Lodge, of T. Sherrard, Esq.; Shrubs, of W.
White, Esq.; Bonnybrook, of T. W. White, Esq.; New-
bery Hill, of A. Ong, Esq.; Priors Wood, of T. Cos-
grave, Esq.; Gracefield, of R. Eames, Esq.; Lark Hill,
of E. Hickson, Esq.; Moatfield, of M. Staunton, Esq.;
Darendale, of F. Gogarty, Esq.; Clare Grove, of Gen.
A. Cuppage; Airfield, of Alderman Sir E.Nugent, Knt.;
and Cameron Lodge, of H. Jones, Esq.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin,
and in the patronage of the Marquess of Drogheda, in
whom the rectory is impropriate: the vicarial tithes
amount to £249. 4. 7½. There is a glebe-house, with a
glebe comprising 17a. 2r. 25p. The church, dedicated
to St. Brandon, a neat edifice, was partly rebuilt and
enlarged, by aid of a loan of £500 from the late Board
of First Fruits, in 1818. In the R. C. divisions the
parish forms part of the union or district of Clontarf.
The chapel was erected in 1831, at an expense of £800,
raised by subscription: it is a very neat edifice, in the
later English style, with a belfry over the principal
entrance; the interior is very well arranged and neatly
decorated. The parochial school, for which a house was
built at an expense of £300, the gift of Sir Compton
Domville, Bart., is supported by subscription, and
attended by 30 or 40 children. A school of 30 children,
for which a handsome cottage has been built in the
grounds of Beaumont, and an infants’ school in con-
nection with it, are wholly supported by Mrs. Guinness;
and in connection with the R. C. chapel is a school to
which W. Sweetman, Esq., gives £20 per annum. On
a common near the church, which is now enclosed,
a great concourse of persons connected with Emmet’s
insurrection was assembled, ready to march into Dublin
at the appointed signal. In the grounds of Newbrook,
through which flows a small stream, are the walls of a
holy well, dedicated to St. Donagh; the spot is much re-
sorted to, on St. John’s Eve, by poor sick people, who,
after rubbing themselves against the walls, wash in a well
in the adjoining grounds of Donaghmede. In the grounds
of Shrubs was anciently a nunnery, and human bones
are frequently dug up there. There are ancient raths
in the grounds of Bonnybrook and Moatfield.
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COOLRAINE, a village, in the parish of OFFERLANE,
barony of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN’S county, and pro-
vince of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Mountrath,
on the road to Roscrea; containing 53 houses and 324
inhabitants. It is a constabulary police station. A
boulting-mill has been erected, and there is a dispensary
in the village, near which is the parochial school-house,
a neat stone building.—See OFFERLANE.
COOLSTUFFE, a parish, in the barony of SHELMA-
LIER, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER,
1½ mile (E.) from Taghmon; containing 577 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the high road from Wexford,
through Taghmon, to New Ross; and contains 3320
statute acres, of which nearly one-half is in pasture, and
the remainder under an improving system of tillage. It
is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, and forms the corps
of the prebend of Coolstuffe in the cathedral of Ferns,
in the gift of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £200.
The glebe-house was erected in 1806, by aid of a gift of
£100 from the late Board of First Fruits; and there is
a glebe of 4½ acres of good land. There is no church;
the inhabitants resort to that of the adjoining parish of
Taghmon, of which the incumbent of this parish is
curate. In the R. C. divisions the parish is chiefly
within the union or district of Taghmon, and partly in
that of Glyn. A parochial school-house was erected in
1829, on the glebe, by the present incumbent, who con-
tributes £5 per ann. towards the support of the school.
A school, chiefly for females, is patronised by the Hon.
Mrs. Hoare, who provides the school-house, and allows
£2 per annum to the mistress. At Sygansaggard are the
remains of an old castle, consisting of a square tower of
considerable strength, said to have been built by the
Hearne family, but of which no particulars are re-
corded.
COOTEHILL, a market and post-town, in the parish
of DRUMGOON, barony of TULLAGHGARVEY, county of
CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 12 miles (N. E.) from
Cavan, and 57 (N. W. by W.) from Dublin; containing
2239 inhabitants. This town is situated on the road
from Kingscourt to Clones, and consists of four wide
streets, containing 438 houses, nearly all of which are
slated. It is on the borders of a lake, which is naviga-
ble for the greater part of the distance of seven miles
between this place and Ballybay, in Monaghan; and is a
considerable market for linen. The webs are principally
broad sheetings of superior quality, and the number of
pieces sold annually to be bleached is about 40,000.
The trade, which had considerably declined, has for the
last two or three years been improving. The general
market is on Friday, and the corn market on Saturday,
in the market-house. Fairs are held on the second
Friday in each month for cattle, flax, and yarn. Here is
a chief constabulary police station. Petty sessions are
held every Wednesday, and quarter sessions at Easter
and in October in a very neat sessions-house. The
bridewell contains three cells, with separate day-rooms
and yards for males and females, and apartments for
the keeper. The seats in the neighbourhood are very
beautiful, especially Bellamont Forest, the residence of
C. Coote, Esq., which derived its name from the title of
Earl of Bellamont enjoyed, until the year 1800, by the
ancient family of Coote. The house is of brick, two
stories high, with a noble Doric portico of stone, and
the rooms of the lower story are strikingly grand; it