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DERRYGORTREVY, a district parish, in the barony
of DUNGANNON, county of TYRONE, and province of
ULSTER, 3 miles (S. W. by S.) from Dungannon, on the
road to Aughnacloy; containing 5282 inhabitants.
This district was formed in 1819, by setting off 36 town-
lands of the parish of Clonfeacle, or rather from the
ancient parish of Eglish, which was united to Clonfeacle
in the 15th of Chas. II., and thence the whole was
called Clonfeacle. The land is generally good, and in
an unimproved state of cultivation. There are rocks of
excellent limestone, abundance of freestone, and indica-
tions of coal, but none of these have ever been worked.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of
Armagh, and in the patronage of the Rector of Clon-
feacle, to whom the entire tithes are paid, and who
allows the curate annually £93. 9. 3. The glebe-house
was erected by aid of a gift of £450, and a loan of £50,
in 1822, from the late Board of First Fruits; the glebe
comprises 20 acres. The church is a small neat edifice,
with a lofty square tower, erected in 1815, at a cost of
£800 by the same Board; it is situated on an eminence,
half a mile west from the ancient church of Eglish. In
the R. C. divisions this district is called Eglish, at which
place there is a chapel. The parochial school, near the
church, was built in 1825, and is aided by an annual
donation from Lord Ranfurly. A school at Gort is
partly supported by Lord Caledon; and there are others
at Clogherney, Cormullan, and Mullicar. About 40
boys and 20 girls are educated in a private school:
there is also a Sunday school.
DERRYGRATH, a parish, in the barony of IFFA
and OFFA WEST, county of TIPPERARY, and province of
MUNSTER, 2¼: miles (E. by S.) from Cahir; containing
1299 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from Clon-
mel to Cahir, and comprises 3764 acres, of which about
30 are woodland, 2430 arable, 1088 pasture and 16 bog.
Woodrooff, the seat of William Perry, Esq., is in a
handsome and well-planted demesne, which extends
into the adjoining parishes. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Lismore, and in the patronage of
the Bishop; the rectory constitutes the corps of the
chancellorship of the cathedral of St. Carthage, Lismore.
The tithes amount to £230. 6., of which £120 is pay-
able to the appropriator, and £110. 6. to the vicar: the
glebe comprises 16a. 3r. 24p. The church is a plain
neat building erected by aid of a gift of £800, and a loan
of £400, in 1816, from the late Board of First Fruits.
The parochial schools are supported by the incumbent,
and there is a female school under the patronage of
Mr. Perry, also a hedge school of about 100 children.
DERRYHEEN, an ecclesiastical district, in the
barony of UPPER LOUGHTEE, county of CAVAN, and
province of ULSTER, 3 miles (N. W.) from Cavan, on
the road to Enniskillen; containing 1771 inhabitants.
This place was erected into an ecclesiastical district in
1834, by disuniting nine townlands from the parish of
Urney, three from that of Kilmore, three from Castle-
terra, and a portion of the parish of Drumlane. It is
situated on the river Derryheen, and contains some
good arable and pasture land in a state of improved
cultivation, though partially subject to occasional inun-
dation from the surrounding lakes, and a moderate por-
tion of valuable bog. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the diocese of Kilmore, and in the patronage of the
incumbents of the parishes out of which it was formed:
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the income of the curate arises from a money payment
contributed by each of the patrons. There is neither
glebe-house nor glebe. The church is a neat and well-
built edifice. A school at Dedris is supported by Lord
Farnham, and there is one at Inishmore, together
affording instruction to about 100 boys and 60 girls.
Here are the ruins of some ancient buildings, called
Church Urney, supposed to have been monastic: they
form apicturesque object, with a burial-ground at-
tached, used by the R. C. inhabitants.
DERRYKEIGHAN, a parish, partly in the barony
of LOWER DUNLUCE, and partly in that of CAREY,
county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER; contain-
ing, with the Grange of Drumtullagh, and post-town
of Dervock, 5134 inhabitants. This parish is situated
on the river Bush, and is intersected by the roads from
Coleraine to Ballycastle, and from Ballymoney to the
Giants’ Causeway: according to the Ordnance surveys
it comprises 11,396½ statute acres. Great improvement
has been made in the system of agriculture since the
commencement of the present century, by the exertions
of gentlemen residing on their own estates, in which
they have been greatly assisted by G. Macartney, Esq., of
Lisanour Castle, and J. Montgomery, Esq., of Benvarden.
The bogs have been drained and partly reclaimed; the
crops are excellent, and the wheat, though only culti-
vated since 1827, is inferior in quality and produce to
none in the county; there is still some bog remaining,
which produces excellent fuel, and of which part is being
brought into cultivation every year. The scenery is
pleasingly diversified, and enriched with the flourishing
plantations with which, notwithstanding their elevated
situation and proximity to the sea, the neighbouring
gentlemen’s seats are surrounded. Of these the prin-
cipal are Ballydivity, the residence of J. Stewart Moore,
Esq.; Lisconnan, of J. Allen, Esq.; Grace Hill, of H.
Irwin Stuart, Esq.; and Knockmore, of Hugh Mackay,
Esq. Bush Bank, the seat of Capt. Pottinger, was de-
stroyed by an accidental fire in 1833, but is about to be
rebuilt. At Mosside is a manufactory of ropes and
cordage made from the bog fir, which is found in large
quantities and prepared for that purpose; it affords
employment to a great number of persons. The whole
of the parish is within the Bushmills district, where
courts and petty sessions are held every alternate Monday.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Connor, and is part of
the union and corps of the prebend of Cairncastle in the
cathedral of Connor: the tithes amount to £430. The
glebe-house was built in 1826, by a loan of £1107. 13. 10.
from the late Board of First Fruits: the glebe com-
prises 28½ acres valued at £25 per annum. The Eccle-
siastical Commissioners have recomrnended that on the
next avoidance of the union this parish be severed
from the rest, and constituted a separate and distinct
benefice. The original church was a very small and
incommodious building; but in 1831 G. Macartney,
Esq., gave an Irish acre of land, which he enclosed with
a stone wall, close to the town of Dervock, as a site for
the erection of a new church, towards the building of
which he contributed also £150; a sum was raised by
subscription in the neighbourhood, and the late Board
of First Fruits granted a loan of £600, and with these
sums the present church was completed. It is a spaci-
ous and handsome structure, in the later English style
of architecture, with a lofty square embattled tower