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tlemen’s seats are Dorrington House, the residence of
R. Jones, Esq.; Walterstown, of St. George Gray, Esq.;
and Lissenode, of J. Russell, Esq. In the hamlet of
Walterstown is a constabulary police station. The
parish is in the diocese of Meath; the rectory and
vicarage form part of the union of Ballyloughloe, the
incumbent of which presents to the perpetual curacy of
Drumraney. The tithes amount to £290.15. 4½., payable
to the incumbent of the union: the income of the per-
petual curate is £100 per annum, of which £60 is paid
by the incumbent, and £40 out of Primate Boulter’s
augmentation fund. Two townlands, called High and
Low Baskin, pay tithes to the parish of Castlelost; they
are impropriate in Lord Kilmaine, and extend over about
500 acres. The glebe-house was erected in 1814, by aid
of a gift of £450, and a loan of £50 from the late Board
of First Fruits; the glebe comprises 32 acres. The
church, a neat building in good repair, was built in 1811,
by aid of a gift of £500 from the same Board. In the
R. C. divisions this parish is co-extensive with that of
the Established Church: there is a chapel at Drumraney.
About 100 children are taught in the three public schools
of the parish, of which one was built by H. K. Digby,
Esq; and there are three private schools, in which are
about 120 children. There are several raths; also
remains of old forts and towers at High Baskin, Dono-
mona, and near Dorrington; and at Killininny, Bally-
cloughdough, Ardnagard, and Walterstown, are remains
of castles, formerly belonging to the Dillons, whose
burial-place was anciently at Drumraney. Here is a
holy well, dedicated to St. Enan; his festival is cele-
brated on the Sunday after Sept. 18th.
DRUMRATT, a parish, in the barony of CORRAN,
county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 3 miles
(S.) from Ballymote, on the road from Boyle to Bally-
mote; containing 1606 inhabitants. It is on the con-
fines of the county of Roscommon, and comprises 3682
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. The
lands are principally under tillage, and there is a
due portion of good grazing land, with a sufficient
tract of bog for fuel. Limestone is quarried for agri-
cultural purposes. Abbeyville is the residence of J.
Fleming, Esq. It is in the diocese of Achonry; the
rectory is impropriate in Sir H. Montgomery, Bart., and
the vicarage forms part of the union of Emlyfadd. The
tithes amount to £204. 13. 11., of which £95. 3. 3. is
payable to the impropriator, and £109.10. 8. to the vicar.
In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the
union or district of Tumore; the chapel is at Culfader.
There are two private schools, in which are about 90
boys and 40 girls. An abbey was founded here by St.
Fechin, of which the last abbot of whom there is any
record, died in 1016; it afterwards became the parish
church, and there are still some remains.
DRUMREILLY, a parish, partly in the barony
of TULLAGHAGH, county of CAVAN, and province of
ULSTER, and partly in that of DROMAHAIRE, but
chiefly in that of CARRIGALLEN, county of LEITRIM,
and province of CONNAUGHT, 2½ miles (E. by N.) from
Ballinamore, on the road to Killeshandra; containing
9278 inhabitants. This parish was separated from Tem-
pleport by act of council in 1835, and comprises 4373
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, besides
a great portion of mountain. There are large grazing
farms, and a vast quantity of bog. Limestone is found.
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here. The parish is intersected by Lake Gorradise, on
which stands Gorradise, the residence of W. C. Percy,
Esq., and Bush Hill, of C. Gerard, Esq; and in the
vicinity is Corduff, the property of W. Penrose, Esq.
There is a small island in the lake, called Robbers
island. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kil-
more, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the rectory
is appropriate to the see. The tithes amount to £300,
of which £200 is payable to the bishop, and £100 to the
vicar. There is no glebe-house: the glebe comprises
365 acres, of which 282 are profitable land, valued at
£322. 15. 6½. per annum. The church is a plain struc-
ture, in good repair, built in 1737, by William Gore,
Esq. In the R. C. divisions it is divided into three
parochial benefices, Upper Drumreilly, Lower Drum-
reilly, and Ballinagleragh, containing three chapels, be-
sides a fourth annexed to Lower Drumreilly, called the
mountain chapel. About 500 children are educated in
seven public, and 110 in two private schools; there is
also a Sunday school.
DRUMSHALLON, a parish, in the barony of FER-
RARD, county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 4
miles (N.) from Drogheda, on the coast road to Dundalk;
containing 1048 inhabitants. This parish was distin-
guished as the site of a monastery founded at Druimineas-
cluinn, now Drumshallon, by St. Patrick, for Canons
Regular, of which the abbot Tiarnach, who died in 876,
and some of his successors were generally styled Bishops:
in 969, being in the possession of the Danes, it was
plundered by Muirceartagh, Prince of Oileach, and son
of Donell, King of Ireland, on which occasion many of
the Danish occupants were killed. The priory of the
Holy Trinity, now Christ-Church, Dublin, had a cell
of three canons at this place; but Albert, Archbishop
of Armagh, desirous of reforming the state of religion,
suppressed it, as preserving no regular order or disci-
pline. The parish comprises, according to the Ordnance
survey, 3585½ statute acres, including 372 acres in the
detached townland of Labanstown on the sea coast, and
9¾ acres in Lough Kircock. Drumshallon is the residence
of Gorges Henzill, Esq. The living is a rectory, in the
diocese of Armagh, partly appropriate to the Dean and
Chapter of Christ-Church, Dublin, and partly forming
part of the corps of the precentorship in that cathedral,
annexed to which are lands here comprising 494a. Ir.
29p. statute measure, let on lease to Mr. Henzill, at a
rent of £46. 3. 1., with an annual renewal fine of £77.
10. 9¼: the tithes amount to £178. 17. 4½., wholly
payable to the precentor. The Protestant parishioners
attend divine service in the church of Ballymakenny, the
incumbent of which is paid £10. 10. per annum by the
appropriators, for performing the occasional duties of this
parish. In the R. C. divisions the parish is partly in the
union or district of Termonfechin, and partly in that of
Moylary; the chapel is at Fieldstown. The parochial
school is under the patronage of the Countess de Salis,
and aided with £12. 12. per annum, from the appropria-
tors; and there is a private school, in which are about
40 boys and 20 girls.
DRUMSHAMBO, a village, in the parish of KILTO-
GHART, barony and county of LEITRIM, and province
of CONNAUGHT; 6¾ miles (N. by E.) from Carrick-on-
Shannon; containing 479 inhabitants. It is situated
near the southern extremity of Lough Allen, not far
from the point where the Shannon emerges from it,