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FAR
Thomond, whose seat, Rostellan Castle, immediately
adjoins the village. Fairs are held on Feb. 2nd and
March 25th for general farming stock. Near the vil-
lage are a convenient quay and stores, where coal, sea-
sand, and other articles are landed. Here is the parochial
school, founded by the late Bishop Brinkley, who en-
dowed it with two acres of land; it is almost entirely
supported by the Marchioness of Thomond.—See ROS-
TELLAN and AGHADA.
FARIHY, a parish, in the barony of FERMOY, county
of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 6 miles (W.) from
Mitchelstown, on the road to Doneraile; containing
2085 inhabitants. It comprises 4770 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £3475 per
annum. The land is of medium quality and chiefly
under tillage; and the state of agriculture is gradually
improving. There is a considerable portion of mountain
pasture in the north of the parish, where it borders on
the county of Limerick, from which it is separated by
part of the range called the Galtees. Two small oat-
meal-mills are worked by streams from these moun-
tains, at the foot of which is situated Bowenscourt, the
seat of H. C. Bowen, Esq. It is a rectory, in the diocese
of Cloyne, forming the corps of the deanery of Cloyne,
in the patronage of the Crown; the tithes amount to
£410. The glebe-house was erected by aid of a gift of
£100 and a loan of £900, in 1819, from the late Board of
First Fruits, and has a glebe attached of about 25 statute
acres. The church, a plain building with a tower sur-
mounted by a small wooden spire, is now undergoing a
thorough repair, for which purpose the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners have recently made a grant of £317.
In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or dis-
trict of Kildorrery. About.12 children are instructed in
a Sunday school, under the superintendence of the Pro-
testant clergyman.
FARTAGH, or FERTAGH, a parish, partly in the
barony of CRANAGH, but chiefly in that of GALMOY,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 8 miles
(S. W.) from Durrow, on the mail coach road from
Athy to Cashel; containing, with the post-town of
Johnstown (which is described under its own head),
3205 inhabitants. A priory for Canons Regular of the
order of St. Augustine was founded here in the 13th
century by the Blanchfield family, which, after its dis-
solution, was granted by Queen Elizabeth to a member
of the family of Butler. The ancient chapel is still re-
maining, and contains a large table monument with the
recumbent figure of a warrior, and formerly of a female
by his side, supposed to be members of the Fitzpatrick
family; and another tomb with a female figure, having
a singular head dress. A few yards to the west of this
building are the roofless remains of an ancient round
tower, still 96 feet high and cracked from the doorway
to the summit. The parish comprises 6353 statute acres,
as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £4067
per annum, which, with the exception of a very small
portion of wood and a little waste, is good arable and
pasture land. Near Ballyspellan is a quarry of fine lime-
stone used for tombstones. The principal seats are Violet
Hill, the residence of Gorges Hely, Esq.; Melross, of C.
Hely, Esq.; and Ellenville, of Mrs. Hely. Fowks Court,
formerly the residence of Chief Justice Hely, and now
the property of his descendant, G. Hely, Esq., was a
very handsome seat, but is now in ruins. A fair, chiefly
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for pigs, is held on the 5th of March. The living is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, and in
the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to
£360. 19. The glebe-house was erected by a gift of
£323 and a loan of £415 from the late Board of First
Fruits, in 1828; and there is a glebe. The church is a
very neat edifice, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
have recently granted £174 for its repair. In the R. C.
divisions the parish is part of the union or district of
Eirke; there is a chapel at Johnstown, and another at
Galmoy. About 120 girls are taught in the parochial
school, and there are four private schools, in which are
about 380 children. Here are the ruins of the castle
of Killesheelan. The Ballyspellan spa, in this parish,
is a powerful chalybeate, and is in great repute for its
medicinal properties.
FAUGHANSTOWN.—See FAUGHLEY.
FAUGHANVALE, a parish, in the barony of TIR-
KERAN, county of LONDONDERRY, and province of
ULSTER, 8 miles (S. E.) from Londonderry, on the mail
coach road to Coleraine; containing 6218 inhabitants.
This parish, which is bounded on the north by Lough
Foyle, comprises, according to the Ordnance survey,
18,582¼ statute acres, the greater portion of which was
granted in 1609, by Jas. I., to the Grocers’ Company of
London, who in 1619 erected a strong and handsome
castle, surrounded by a bawn, in which they placed a
powerful garrison. In the war of 1641 this castle sus-
tained a siege for several months, and resolutely held
out against the parliamentarians till the garrison was
relieved; it was again besieged and finally taken and
dismantled by the parliament; the ruins were stand-
ing till 1823, when they were removed, and the
present glebe-house erected on the site. Of the
remainder of the parish, part is held in perpetuity
equally by Lesley Alexander, Esq., and the heirs of the
late Sir Wm. Ponsonby, who pay a chief rent of £200
per ann. to the Goldsmiths’ Company; part belongs to
Major Scott, part to the see of Derry, and a few of the
native townlands in the Grocers’ proportion to the
Marquess of Londonderry. The land is generally
fertile, especially round the villages of Faughanvale
and Muff, and the system of agriculture has been
greatly improved under the auspices of the North West
Agricultural Society, and the gentry resident in the
district. Many thousand acres of bog and waste land
have been reclaimed and brought into profitable culti-
vation; the lands are well drained and fenced, and there
are extensive and flourishing plantations, exclusively of
the ancient oak woods of Walworth, which are princi-
pally in this parish. At Creggan and Tullynee are
quarries of excellent slate, but they are only partially
worked, and principally for flags and tombstones. The
principal seats are Willsborough, that of Major Scott;
Foyle Park, of Lesley Alexander, Esq.; Campsey, of J.
Quin, Esq.; Creggan, of T. Major, Esq.; Coolafeeney,
of T. Lecky, Esq.; Muff House, of the Rev. J. Christie;
and Tullybrisland, of T. Major, Esq. A manorial court,
in which debts not exceeding 40s. are recoverable, is
held at Muff for that part of the parish which belongs to
the Grocers’ Company. The living is a rectory and
perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Derry; the rectory
forming part of the union of Templemore and of the corps
of the deanery of Derry, and the curacy in the patron-
age of the Dean. The tithes amount to £700, payable