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and close to that where the new line of navigation
from Battle-bridge enters it. Works for smelting
and manufacturing the iron ore found in the neighbour-
hood were formerly carried on here, and were con-
tinued in operation till 1765. The iron-stone was chiefly
collected from the eastern shore of Lough Allen, and in
the beds of the streams that descend from the Slieve-an-
erin mountains to the lake, where small workings are also
visible; vast woods, which formerly clothed the neigh-
bouring valleys, supplied charcoal, and limestone as a
flux was quarried close to the works, which appear to
have consisted only of one small square blast furnace,
from which the iron was carried to the neighbouring
village, where it was forged into bars. The village is a
constabulary police station, and has a penny post to Car-
rick-on-Shannon. Fairs are held on Feb. 15th, April 1st,
May 16th, June 13th, July 18th, Aug. 16th, Oct. 6th,
and Nov. 16th. The second church for the parish is in
this village, and was erected by a loan of £1107. 13.
from the late Board of First Fruits in 1829. It is a
gothic structure ornamented with a tower and pinnacles:
there are also a R. C. and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
A loan fund has recently been established here.—See
KlLTOGHART.
DRUMSNA, a post-town, in the parish of ANNADUFF,
barony and county of LEITRIM, and province of CON-
NAUGHT, 3½ miles (S. E.) from Carrick-on-Shannon, and
72¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Dublin, on the river Shannon
and on the mail road to Sligo; containing 427 inhabi-
tants. It comprises about 70 slated houses, several of
which are large and handsome, and is a constabulary
police station. Petty sessions are held every Tuesday,
and fairs on May 20th, June 22nd, Aug. 25th, Oct. 7th,
and Dec. 13th. The vicinity presents some of the most
beautiful scenes in the county; in one direction are seen
the windings of the Shannon through a fertile district,
the projection of a wooded peninsula on its course, the
heights of Sheebeg and Sheemore, with the more lofty
mountain of Slieve-an-erin in the distance; and in the
other, the luxuriant and varied swell of Teeraroon, the
adjacent part of the county of Roscommon. A pleasing
walk through the woods, from which is discovered the
windings of the Shannon and the lofty mountains to the
north and west, conducts to a sulphureous spring issuing
from the verge of a small lake. A little to the south of
the town an expansion of the river forms Lough Boffin.
The seats in its immediate vicinity are, Mount Campbell,
the handsome residence of Vice Admiral Sir James
Rowley, Bart., which is divided by the Shannon from
Charlcstown, that of Sir Gilbert King, Bart. In the
latter is an avenue of fine limetrees through which the
town is seen to great advantage. On the hill above
the town is the pleasant residence of the Messrs. Walsh,
commanding extensive views of the river and surround-
ing country; and a little below the town, on the Roscom-
mon shore, is Clonteen, a lodge belonging to the Mar-
quess of Westmeath.—See ANNADUFF.
DRUMSNATT, a parish, in the barony of MONAGHAN,
county of MONAGHAN, and province of ULSTER, 4¾ miles
(S. W.) from Monaghan, on the road from that place to
Clones; containing 3411 inhabitants. According to the
Ordnance survey it comprises 50l9¼ statute acres, of
which 4436 are applotted under the tithe act: the land
is moderately fertile and chiefly under tillage. The
principal seats are Thorn hill, the residence of J.
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Johnson, Esq.; Brookvale, of Capt. Johnston; and the
Glebe-house, of the Rev. A. Mitchell. The living is a
vicarage, in the diocese of Clogher, and in the patronage
of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in Sir T. B.
Lennard, Bart. The tithes amount to £189. 4. 71½, of
which £106. 3. 1. is payable to the impropriator, and
£83. 1. 61½. to the vicar. There is a glebe-house, with a
glebe of 22 acres. The church, for the repairs of which
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners lately granted £316,
is a plain modern structure with a tower. In the R. C.
divisions it is the head of a union or district, com-
prising the parishes of Drumsnatt and Kilmore, and
containing two chapels, of which that for Drumsnatt is
at Kilnaclay. About 450 children are educated in four
public, and 190 in three private schools; and there is a
Sunday school.
DRUMTULLAGH, a grange, in the barony of
CAREY, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, on
the road from Ballycastle to Coleraine; containing 1468
inhabitants. It comprises, according to the Ordnance
survey, 3753½ statute acres, and is ecclesiastically re-
garded as forming part of the parish of Derrykeighan.
DRUNG, a parish, in the barony of TULLAGHGAR-
VEY, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles’
(E. N. E.) from Cavan, on the road from that place
to Cootehill; containing 6015 inhabitants. According
to the Ordnance survey it comprises 11,475 statute
acres, including 78 of water. Here are several quarries
of good building stone, and it is supposed that various
minerals exist, but no mines have been worked. The
principal seats are Rakenny, the residence of T. S. Cle-
ments, Esq., and Fort Lodge, of J. Smith, Esq. The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, united
from time immemorial to that of Laragh, and in the
patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in
the Marquess of Westmeath. The tithes amount to
£475. 15. ll½., of which £202. 4. 7½. is payable to the
impropriator, and £273. 11. 4½. to the vicar; the
entire tithes of the benefice amount to £610. 18. 6½.
There is a glebe-house, with several glebes, comprising
695 acres, and valued at £606. 16. 3. per annum. The
church is a handsome building, lately repaired by a
grant of £130 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Esta-
blished Church, and contains two chapels, one at Dun-
nannah and the other at Bannow. About 350 children
are educated in three public, and 320 in seven private
schools, besides those who are taught in three Sunday
schools. There are several raths, one of which is called
Fort William, part of King William’s army having occu-
pied it after encamping near Ballyhaise on a spot since
called Camp Hill.—See BALLINECARGY.
DUAGH, a parish, partly in the barony of IRAGHTI-
CONNOR, but chiefly in that of CLANMAURICE, county
of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, on the river
Feale, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Listowel; containing 3750
inhabitants, of which number, 210 are in the village.
It extends to the confines of the county of Limerick,
and comprises 19,129 statute acres, as applotted under
the tithe act, a large portion of which consists of coarse
mountain pasture and bog. A kind of brown flagstone
is found in several places. The gentlemen’s seats are
Duagh House, the residence of M. Fitzmaurice, Esq.,
pleasantly situated on the Feale, and Duagh Glebe, of
the Rev. R. Hickson; part of the beautiful demesne of
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