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DUN
coast: the population is returned with the parish.
Here are a market-house, constabulary police station,
and dispensary; also the parochial church, and R. C,
chapel. The post-office is subject to that at Ardara.
Petty sessions are held on the first Tuesday in each
month.
DUNGOURNEY, a parish, partly in the barony of
Imokilly, but chiefly in that of Barrymore, county of
Cork, and province of Munster, 4½ miles (N.) from
Castlemartyr, on the road from Cork to Youghal; con-
taining 2640 inhabitants. This parish comprises 8991
statute acres, of which 5925 are applotted under the tithe
act, and valued at £4529 per annum; about 70 acres are
woodland, nearly one-fourth of the land is waste, and
the remainder is arable and pasture. The soil is gene-
rally good, but the system of agriculture is in an unim-
proved state; there are some quarries of common red
stone, which is worked for various purposes, and there
is a moderate supply of turf for fuel. The Dungourney
river rises in the neighbouring hills of Clonmult, and
flows through a deep glen in the parish, assuming near
the church a very romantic appearance, and towards
the southern boundary adding much beauty to the highly
cultivated and richly wooded demesne of Brookdale,
the seat of A. Ormsby, Esq. The other seats are
Ballynona, that of R. Wigmore, Esq.; Ballynona Cot-
tage, of H, Wigmore, Esq.; and Young Grove, of C.
Foulke, Esq. An agricultural school, in. connection
with, the Protestant Agricultural Society of Cork, has
been established at Brookdale, under the patronage of
Mr. Ormsby, for the instruction of 30 boys in the prac-
tical knowledge of agriculture, combined with a useful
and religious education, and including board and cloth-
ing; the institution is maintained by a payment of £5
per annum from each of the scholars, and the produce of
the farm, aided by donations and subscriptions; when
qualified to become useful, the scholars are provided
with situations by the Committee, and receive a gratuity
of £5. There is also a female school on the same prin-
ciple, in which 35 girls are boarded, clothed, and educa-
ted, under the personal superintendence of Mrs. Ormsby;
on leaving the institution they are provided with situations.
The buildings for both these establishments have cost
more than £ 1000. The living is a rectory, in the diocese
of Cloyne, and in the patronage of Major Fitzgerald: the
tithes amount to £664. 12. 3½. The glebe-house is a
good residence, and the glebe comprises 12 acres. The
church, a plain building with a shingled spire, was erect-
ed by a gift of {£500 from the late Board of First Fruits,
in 1800, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
recently granted £119 for its repair, Attached to
Brookdale House is a private chapel, in which a clergy-
man of the Established Church officiates. In. the R. C,
divisions the parish forms part of the union of Imogealy,
or Castlemartyr. There is a private school, in which
are about 170 children.
DUNHILL, or DON ISLE, anciently called DON-
DRONE, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD,
county of Waterford, and province of Monster, 8
miles (S.E.) from Kilmacthomas; containing 2128 inha-
bitants. It is situated on St. George’s channel, and
comprises 6115 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act. The high lands are principally composed of
pudding-stone and clay-slate, with large masses of
jasper, some of which is very beautiful The village of
582
DUN
Annestown has a few lodging-houses for the accommo-
dation of visitors in the bathing season. The living is a
vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, united to the vi-
carages of Guileagh and Newcastle, and iu the gift of the
Corporation of Waterford, in which the rectory is im-
propriate. The tithes amount to £210, of which £110
is payable to the impropriators, and £100 to the vicar;
and the vicarial tithes of the union are £194. The glebe
comprises above 6 acres. The church at Aunestown
was rebuilt in 1822, by aid of a gift of £900 from the
late Board of First Fruits; and there is a chapel of ease
at Guileagh. In the R. G. divisions the parish is the
head of a union or district, and has a commodious cha-
pel. The most remarkable ruin is Don Isle or Donhill
castle, which was a principal seat of a branch of the
La Poors, and was taken by Cromwell’s army, after an
obstinate defence made by a female proprietor, who was
called Countess of Don Isle. Near it are the ruins of
the church, against one of the walls of which stood a
statue with a coronet, which has lately been placed in
front of the R. C. chapel. In its vicinity is a cromlech
of silicious slate.
DUNISKY, a parish, in the barony of West Mus-
KERRY, county of Cork, and province of Munster, 4
miles (S. S. E.) from Macroom; containing 479 inhabi-
tants. This is a very small parish, comprising only one
ploughland, situated on the south bank of the river Lee,
near Warrens-court. The land is good, and the sub-
stratum consists entirely of clay-slate. It is a rectory,
in the diocese of Cork, being part of the union of St.
Peter’s, Cork, and of the corps of the archdeaconry: the
tithes amount to £107. There being no church, the
parishioners attend divine service at Canaway. The
ruins of the old church are a mile and a half north of
Warrens-court, on rising ground, and show it to have,
been a small building. In the R. C divisions the parish
is part of the union or district of Kilmichael.
DUNKANKLY, a village, in the parish of Killagh-
tee, barony of Bannagh, county of Donegal, and
province of Ulster, 9 miles (W.) from Donegal, near
Inver bay, and on the road from Killybegs to Donegal:
the population is returned with the parish. In 1618
this place was a settlement of ten British families,, having
a territory of 1500 acres, a bawn of lime and stone, and
a castle, and able to muster 5O men at arms. It consists
of one street, has a penny post to Donegal, a dispensary,
a place of worship for Methodists, and a public school.
Twelve fairs are held in the course of the year for farm-
ing stock, and a manor court monthly for the recovery
of debts under £3, In the village are the ruins of the
old parish church, and in the immediate vicinity is the
present church. Half a mile to the west are the ruins
of Castle Mac-Swine, occupying a point of land little
broader than its foundation, which projects some yards
into the sea at the head of Mac-Swine’s bay.—See KIL,-
LAGHTEE.
DUNKERRIN, a parish, in the barony of Clon-
lisk, King’s county, and province of Leinster, 4½
miles (S, W. by W.) from Roserea, on th: main road
from Dublin to Limerick; containing 2177 inhabitants;
of which number, 127 are in the village. This parish is
situated on the confines of the county of Tipperary, by
which it is bounded on the east, and comprsies 6515
statute acres; of which a considerable portion is bog and
waste mountain land. Fairs are held on May 9th, Nov.