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aided by the Elphin Diocesan Society, to which the
bishop gave a house and an acre of ground; and three
Sunday schools are held in the parish, two under the
patronage of Lady Lorton, and one under that of the
Misses Mulloy, of Oakport. A dispensary is maintained
by Lord Lorton for the benefit of his tenantry; and
another has been lately established at Cootehall, by the
exertions of the Messrs. Mulloy, by whom and the
other principal landed proprietors it is supported.
ARDCATH, a parish, in the barony of UPPER.
DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEIN-
STER, 6¾ miles (S. by W.) from Drogheda, on the road
from Dublin to Drogheda; containing 1774 inhabitants.
About one-half is under an improved system of tillage,
and the remainder is excellent pastureland; the
principal corn crop is wheat. There are about 300
acres of bog, which is being gradually reclaimed and
brought into cultivation. On the townland of Cloghan
is a quarry of excellent slate, but it has not been worked
for some years. The weaving of linen was formerly
carried on to a considerable extent: about 200 looms
are at present employed in weaving cotton for the Dub-
lin and Drogheda manufacturers;and there are two
oatmeal-mills, one worked by wind and the other by
water. A fair is held on May 8th principally for cattle.
The parish is in the diocese of Meath; the rectory is
impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda, and the vicar-
age forms part of the union of Duleek. The tithes
amount to £265, of which £195 is payable to the im-
propriator and £70 to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions
the parish is the head of a union or district which com-
prises also the parish of Clonalvy and part of Fierce-
town, and contains two chapels, situated respectively
at Ardcath and Clonalvy: the former is a neat build-
ing, erected about 80 years since, and recently much
enlarged; the additional part stands upon the glebe
land, by permission of the vicar of Duleek. A school
at Cloghantown, of 48 boys and 16 girls, is aided by a
donation of £5 per annum from the Rev. M. Langan,
P.P.; and there is an evening pay school at Yellow-
ford. The Rev. John Leonard, late P.P., bequeathed
the ground on which the residence of the R. C. clergy-
man is built, and fifteen additional acres of laud, to be
vested in trustees for the use of all future pastors;
£10 per annum for the joint use of the three parishes
of the R. C. union, and one ton of oatmeal to be dis-
tributed annually in the same district. The ruins of
the ancient church are extensive, but void of interest-
ing details; the belfry remains, and a bell has been pre-
served in it from time immemorial, at the joint expense
of the Protestant and R. C. inhabitants, and is used at
funerals, and by the latter to assemble their congrega-
tions.
ARDCAVAN, a parish, in the barony of SHELMA-
LIER, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER,
adjoining the town of Wexford, (with which it is con-
nected by the bridge), and containing 878 inhabitants, It
is situated on the eastern shore of the estuary of the
Slaney, and comprises 2370 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act. Ely House, the property of the
Marquess of Ely, is situated near the bridge, at the
southern extremity of the parish, and is the residence of
R. Hughes, Esq. The parish is in the diocese of Ferns,
and is an impropriate cure, forming part of the union
of Ardcolme; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl
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of Portsmouth. The tithes amount to £139. 18. 1¾.,
of which £73. 1. 10¾. is payable to the impropriator, and
£66. 16. 3. to the curate. In the R. C. divisions it is in-
cluded in the union or district of Castlebridge, where the
chapel is situated, and the greater part of which village is
within its limits. Near the shore of Wexford harbour are
the ruins of the old church; and at Ballytramont there
are considerable remains of the ancient castle of that
name. An extensive coppice wood, comprising about 65
statute acres, stretches along the estuary from the
latter place.
ARDCLARE, or CLONIGORMICAN, a parish, in
the half-barony of BALLYMOE, county of ROSCOMMON,
and province of CONNAUGHT, 5¼ miles (N. N. W.) from
Roscommon, on the road to Castlerea; containing 2633
inhabitants. It comprises 8066 statute acres, princi-
pally under pasture; there is no waste land, and only
a small quantity of bog, sufficient for supplying the in-
habitants with fuel. Limestone of the best description
abounds, but the quarries are not worked for any par-
ticular purpose. The principal gentlemen’s seats are
Runnymead, that of J. Balfe, Esq.; Ballymacurly, of
M. Nolan, Esq.; Briarfield, of C. Hawkes, Esq.; and
Faragher Lodge, of the Rev. Lewis Hawkes. Mano-
rial courts are held in the townland of Farragher three
times in the year. The living is a vicarage, in the dio-
cese of Elphin, to which the vicarages of Kilcooley,
Creeve, Killuken, Shankill, Kilmacumsy, and Tumna
were episcopally united in 1809, which seven parishes
constitute the union of Ardclare, in the patronage of
the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of
Essex and Lord De Roos. The tithes amount to
£176.12., one-half of which is payable to the impropria-
tors (the Earl of Essex receiving £73. 11. 8. and Lord
De Roos, £14. 14. 4.) and the other half to the vicar;
and the gross amount of the tithes of the union payable
to the incumbent is £491. 11. 10½. The church was
originally built by Chas. Hawkes, Esq., of Briarfield,
as a chapel of ease, about the year 1720, and subse-
quently became the parochial church; it is a plain edi-
fice in good repair. There is neither glebe-house nor
glebe. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of
the union or district of Glinsk and Ballymoe; the chapel,
a neat edifice recently erected, is situated on the town-
land of Ballymacurly. There are three pay schools, in
which are about 100 boys and 40 girls.
ARDCLARE, a village, in the parish of KILMAC-
TEIGTJE, barony of LENEY, county of SLIGO, and province
of CONNAUGHT, 9 miles (N. E.) from Foxford, on the
road to Ballymote; containing about 20 houses and 110
inhabitants. It has a market on Saturday, and is a sta-
tion of the constabulary police.
ARDCLINIS, a parish, in the Lower half-barony of
GLENARM, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER,
6 miles (N. by W.) from Glenarm; containing 1617 in-
habitants. This parish is situated on Red bay in the
North Channel, and comprises, according to the
Ordnance survey, 15.691 statute acres, of which 15,144
are applotted under the tithe act and valued at £2055 per
annum. The surface is hilly and irregular, but the land
in cultivation is fertile, and the system of agriculture
is in a very improving state. Much of the waste land
has been planted, especially the hills, imparting to the
coast an interesting and cheerful aspect. The arable and
inhabited portion of the parish consists of one long strip