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is a school, aided by subscriptions and collections at an
annual charity sermon, in which about 80 children are
educated. Here are the remains of an ancient castle,
erected by the family of Walsh, by which it was forfeited
in the reign of Chas. I., and then passed to the Loftus
family. The church, which is said to have been the
first erected after the Reformation, stands near the
castle, and has been disused since 1826, when one was
built at Kilternan. Near it is an ancient cross, about
eight feet high, and there is another in the Jamestown
House demesne, in the vicinity of which was a holy well,
dedicated to St. James. An urn, which is now in the
museum of the Royal Irish Society, was discovered in
the lawn of Kilgobbin Cottage.
KILGOBBIN, a parish, in the barony of CORK-
AGUINEY, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER,
7½ miles (W. S. W.) from Tralee, on the Connor Hill road
from that place to Dingle; containing 2378 inhabitants.
It comprises 17,449 statute acres, as applotted under
the tithe act; part of it is well cultivated. Sea-weed is
much used for manure, and there is a fine bank of shell-
sand at Bunnavounder. On the side of the mountain of
Cahirconree is a quarry of indifferent slate, and iron is
said to exist at Carraduff: at Bunnow is a large fiour-
mill. There is a constabulary police station at Knock-
glass. The principal seats are Garryhees, the residence
of F. Fitzgerald, Esq.; Knoekglass, of Mrs. Ray; and
the glebe-house, of the Rev. E. Day. The living is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ardfert and
Aghadoe, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the
tithes amount to £422. The church, for the erection
of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan
of £850, in 1825, is a handsome building, with a square
tower surmounted with pinnacles. There is a glebe-
house, for the erection of which the same Board gave
£250 and lent £550, in 1820: the glebe comprises ten
acres. In the R. C. divisions this parish is the head of
a union or district, called Cappaclough, comprising the
parish of Kilgobbin and part of Ballinvohir: the old
chapel at Cappaclough is in ruins, and a new building
has been erected at Camp. At the latter place are the
ruins of an ancient castle. There are four private schools
in the parish.—See CAPPACLOUGH.
KILGOBINET, a parish, in the barony of DECIES-
without-DRUM, county of WATERFORD, and province
of MUNSTER, 2 miles (N.) from Dungarvan; containing
2683 inhabitants. This parish comprises 16,134 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and includes the
southern end of the elevated range of the Cummeragh
mountains, which are chiefly composed of clay-slate and
slaty conglomerate, with veins of quartz and sandstone.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, forming part
of the union of Modeligo: the rectory forms the corps
of the prebend of Kilgobinet in the cathedral of Lis-
more: the tithes amount to £380, of which £180 is
payable to the prebendary, and the remainder to the
vicar. In the R. C. divisions this parish is the head of
a union or district, comprising the parishes of Kilgo-
binet, Colligan, and Clonca, and containing three cha-
pels, two of which are at Kilgobinet, and one at Colli-
gan. About 200 children are educated in two public
schools, and 90 in a private school. There are some
remains of the old church.
KILGOGHLIN.—See BUMLIN.
KILGORMAN, a parish, in the barony of GORKY,
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KIL
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 5
miles (S. W.) from Arklow, on the coast road from
Wexford to Dublin; containing 1465 inhabitants. This
place takes its name from St. Gorman, who, according
to Archdall, was abbot of a monastery founded here at
a very early period. It lies on the shore of St. George’s
channel, and comprises about 5860 statute acres, of
which the greater portion is under tillage. The soil is
marshy, the system of agriculture slowly improving,
and there is neither waste land nor bog; coal has been
found on the border of the parish, but no works have
been yet established. Hyde Park, the seat of J. Beau-
man, jun., Esq., is a handsome mansion, in grounds
tastefully laid out, and commanding a fine view of the
sea, and of the escarpment of Tara Hill. Ahare, also
the property of Mr. Beauman, and Castletown, a de-
serted mansion, belonging to H. K. Grogan Morgan,
Esq., are also in the parish. There are considerable
herring fisheries at Clone and Saleen. Near the north-
eastern extremity of the parish is Kilmichael Point, off
which, about a mile from the shore and at the north end
of the Kilgorman sand bank, is stationed a light-ship,
also called the Arklow floating light, from its position
near the south end of the Arklow sand banks. Kilgor-
man bank extends more than four miles (S. W. by S.),
and has sis feet of water on the north and three feet on
the south end, the latter running nearly opposite to the
new pier and harbour of Courtown. About halfway
between the great sand bank and the shore is an oyster
bed, about half a mile in extent, to the south of which
is a small sand bank called the Saleen Patch. At the
Point is a coast-guard station. The parish is in the
diocese of Dublin and Glendalough; the rectory is
partly impropriate in Messrs. D. Howell, W. Johnson,
and C. Cooper, and partly forming a portion of the
union of Arklow; and the vicarage is part of the union
of Inch. The tithes amount to £210, of which £46.3.1.
is payable to the impropriators, £13. 16. 11. to the
incumbent of Arklow, and £150 to the vicar: the glebe
comprises 20½ acres. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Arklow; the
chapel, at Castletown, built by subscription in 1806, is
a handsome edifice, with a lofty square embattled tower
crowned with pinnacles, which was added to it in 1829.
Adjoining it is a school-house, built by subscription;
and at Hyde Park is a school wholly supported by the
Misses Beauman. Near the ruins of the old church, on
the sea shore, is one of those raths or mounds usually
attributed to the Danes.
KILGRANT, or POWERSTOWN, a parish, in the
barony of IFFA and OFFA EAST, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 1¾ mile (E. N. E.) from
Clonmel, on the high road from that place to Water-
ford, and the mail coach road from Cork to Dublin;
containing 1186 inhabitants. It comprises 1749 acres,
and is watered by the rivers Anner and Suir, over the
latter of which is a stone bridge built at the expense of
the late Sir Thomas Osborne, Bart.; and near the junc-
tion of the rivers are the extensive flour-mills and
residence of Barclay Clibborn, Esq. The other seats
are Annerville, the residence of — Riall, Esq.; Wilder-
ness, of — Green, Esq.; and Redmonstone House, of
— Quinn, Esq. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lis-
more, forming part of the union of Kilcash, or Killaloon;
the rectory is impropriate in John Bagwell, Esq., and
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