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DAR
the diocese of Meath, and forms part of the union of
Kentstown: the tithes amount to £80; the glebe com-
prises la. 2r. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the
union or district of Blacklion; the chapel is a neat plain
building.
DARAGH, or GLENROE, a parish, in the barony
of COSTLEA, county of LIMERICK, and province of
MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. E.) from Kilfinane; containing
1856 inhabitants. This place, generally called Daragh-
Glenroe, signifying “the Oaks of the red valley,” is
situated on the road from Limerick to Mitchelstown,
and derives its name from an ancient and extensive
forest of oaks, in the vale of Glenroe, extending from
the hills of Glenasheen to the river at Towerlegan.
Towards its north-west boundary are still some woods
of oak, the remains of the ancient forest. Near its
south-western extremity the road to Ballingarry crosses
a small river, near the confluence of two streams, form-
ing a boundary between the dioceses of Cork and Emly,
and between this parish and the adjacent parishes of
Ballylander and Ballingarry. The parish, which adjoins
the county of Cork, comprises 6635 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £4197 per
annum. The land is every where of excellent quality,
and generally under a good system of cultivation.
Daragh House, the seat of F. Bevan, Esq., is pleasantly
situated, and extensive improvements are in progress
around it. Ballynacorty House is the seat of M.
Bourke, Esq. Near Daragh House are some extensive
slate quarries, but they have not been worked to a
sufficient depth to procure slates equal to those of the
counties of Waterford and Cork. A new line of road
from Limerick to Mitchelstown is in course of forma-
tion, which, when completed, will become the principal
road from Limerick to Cork. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Limerick, united by act of council to
that of Kilfinane, together forming the union of Daragh,
in the patronage of the Earl of Cork, in whom the
rectory is impropriate: the tithes amount to £240, of
which £105 is payable to the impropriator, and the
remainder to the vicar; and the tithes for the whole
benefice amount to £300. There is neither church,
glebe-house, nor glebe. In the R. C. divisions the parish
is the head of a union or district called Glenroe, com-
prising also the parish of Kilflyn, in each of which is a
chapel; the chapel of Daragh, in Glenroe, is a spacious
and handsome edifice, erected in 1834, at an expense of
£750. There is a pay school of about 20 boys and 20
girls. There are the ruins of a churchyard. Near the
road leading from Mitchelstown to Kilflyn are the re-
mains of the old hospital of Daragh.
DARGLE.—See POWERSCOURT.
DARGLE, LITTLE.—See WHITECHURCH, county
of DUBLIN.
DARVER, a parish, in the barony and county of
LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (N.W.)
from Castle-Bellingham; containing 631 inhabitants.
It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 1992
statute acres of good arable and pasture land, of which
1935 are applotted tinder the tithe act. Darver Castle
is the seat of J. Booth, Esq. The living is a rectory, in
the diocese of Armagh, separated on the death of the
last incumbent from the parish of Dromiskin, pursuant
to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners in 1831, and in the patronage of the Lord-
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Primate. The tithes amount to £230: the glebe com-
prises 1¾ acres, valued at £8 per annum. The ruins
of the church are near Darver Castle: there is no glebe-
house. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union
or district, comprising Darver and Dromiskin, in each
of which is a chapel. There is a school under the
National Board, in which are about 190 boys and 150
girls.
DAVIDSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of NAR-
RAGH and RHEBAN, county of KILDARE, and province
of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S. S. W.) from Kilcullen, on the
road from Dublin to Athy; containing 1464 inhabitants.
It is principally under tillage. The rectory is appro-
priate to the see of Kildare, and the parish, which is in
the diocese of Dublin, forms part of the impropriate
curacy of Kilcullen: the tithes amount to £199. 7. 4.
In the R. C. divisions it is within the union or district
of Crookstown, called also Narraghmore. There is a
school at Calverstown under the Trustees of Erasmus
Smith’s charity, in which are about 30 boys and 40
girls.
DEER ISLAND, or INNISMORE, an island, in the
parish of KILCHRIST, barony of CLONDERLAW, county
of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER, 3½ miles (N. E.)
from Kildysart; the population is returned with the
parish. This island is situated near the western bank
of the river Fergus, about a quarter of a mile from the
shore of Kildysart parish, and contains 493 statute acres,
which are nearly equally divided between pasture and
tillage. It is the property of the Earl of Egremont,
and is also called Inchmore, or the “Great Island,” being
the largest of those by which the Fergus is adorned,
and is remarkable for the fertility of its soil. Flax was
formerly cultivated here to a considerable extent, and
afforded employment to the female population, but it is
now only partially grown. There are some vestiges of
an abbey still remaining, founded (according to Arch-
dall) at a very early period, by St. Senan of Inniscat-
tery, who appointed St. Liberius, one of his disciples,
to preside over it.
DELGANY, a post-town and parish, in the half-
barony of RATHDOWN, county of WICKLOW, and pro-
vince of LEINSTER, 9½ miles (N.) from Wicklow, and
15¼ (S. S. E.) from Dublin; containing 2268 inhabitants,
of which number, 188 are in the village. Towards the
close of the fifth century a religious cell was founded
by St. Mogoroc, brother of St. Canoe, at this place,
which was anciently called Dergne, or Delgne; and in
1022 a great battle was fought here between Ugain,
King of Leinster, and Sitric, the Danish King of Dublin,
in which the latter was defeated. The parish, which is
situated on the mail coach road from Dublin to Wex-
ford, and on the lower road from Bray to Wicklow, and
is bounded on the east by the sea, comprises 3782
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and
valued at £4965. 12. 2. per annum. The land is fertile,
the system of agriculture much improved, and there is
scarcely any waste land and but very little bog. The
village is beautifully situated in a sequestered spot on
the banks of the stream that waters the Glen of the
Downs, and consists of about 30 houses and cottages,
which are built in a very pleasing style. A small manu-
facture of straw plat and nets is carried on; and about
three miles to the south of Bray Head, on a low rocky
point, is the small fishing hamlet called the Greystones,
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