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order; the master’s seat is under a canopy in the
gallery at the west extremity of the chapel, and on each
side of it are pews for the various officers of the hospital;
the ceiling is most elaborately ornamented in stucco,
and divided into coved compartments filled with ele-
gant and finely executed designs. The remainder of the
north range is occupied by the apartments of the mas-
ter, who is always the commander of the forces for the
time being; and the other parts of the building contain
apartments for the inmates, opening on the ground floor
into the piazzas, which are neatly flagged, or from the
upper story into spacious galleries above. The deputy-
master’s house occupies a detached situation near the
master’s garden; and in the north-east part of the
grounds is the infirmary, which, with the late additions,
contains 48 beds, and cells for 12 lunatics. The present
establishment is for 5 captains, an adjutant, and 250
invalid soldiers, selected from the list of out-pensioners
in Ireland, amounting to 20,000; they are supplied
with residence, clothing, diet, medical attendance, and
every necessary comfort and accommodation, similar to
those of Chelsea. The institution is under the direction
of a governor, who is generally an officer of high rank,
and the management of a master, deputy-master, chap-
lain, secretary, registrar, pay-master, physician, surgeon,
assistant-surgeon, apothecary, reader, providore, cham-
berlain, butler, and fueler, all of whom (except the phy-
sician and surgeon, who live near the infirmary,) have
apartments in the house. The expenses of the esta-
blishment amount annually to something more than
£10,000, and, together with the original cost of the
building, were formerly defrayed by a deduction of six-
pence in the pound from all military issues from the
Irish treasury, till 1796, when, on the surrender to
Government of a considerable portion of the estates, it
was resolved to issue an annual grant of parliament for
its support.
The village is connected with the metropolis on the
eastern side by a range of buildings along the great
}western road, and is situated in a small valley watered
by a stream which, a little below it, falls into the Liffey.
The Hibernian mills, established in 1812 by Messrs.
Willans, for the manufacture of the finest woollen cloths,
which trade they have successfully pursued, and having
greatly extended their establishment, it affords employ-
ment to nearly 500 persons, for whose residence the
proprietors have erected suitable dwellings, and also
a place of worship of the Independent denomination.
The election of members for the county takes place here;
and by an act of council, issued on the 10th of Jan.,
1837, under the act of the 6th and 7th of Win. IV., for
extending the jurisdiction and regulating the proceed-
ings of the Civil Bill Court in Ireland, four general
sessions of the peace are held annually at Kilmainham
and two at Ballymore-Eustace, for one of the two dis-
tricts into which the county has been divided, consist-
ing of the baronies of Castleknock and Coolock, except
the parts of the parishes of Swords, Killossory, and Ma-
lahide, which are in Coolock barony; also of the part
of Finglas parish in the barony of Nethercross, and the
baronies of Newcastle, Uppercross, and Rathdown: for
the particulars of the other district, see SWORDS. The
jurisdiction of the manor court, which is also held here,
on alternate Mondays, embraces the whole of the barony
of Newcastle: debts can be recovered in it to any amount,
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but the seneschal never takes cognizance of any above
£10. The court-house, of recent erection, is a spacious
and handsome building; and adjoining it is the county
gaol, a well-arranged building enclosed by a lofty wall,
including an area 283 feet long and 190 feet wide; the
main building, 178 feet long and 102 feet wide, consists
of two quadrangles, containing apartments for the
keeper, a chapel, infirmary, work-room, common hall,
60 cells for criminals, and 8 for male and 2 for female
debtors, with 10 spacious airing-yards, in one of which
is a treadmill; the whole admirably adapted to classifi-
cation, and to the employment and improvement of the
prisoners; convicts from the north of Ireland are
lodged in this prison previously to transportation.
Adjoining the Royal hospital is an extensive cemetery,
anciently the burial-place of the original monastery,
subsequently of the Knights Templars and the Knights
of St. John of Jerusalem, and still used by the in-
habitants of Dublin. In it is an ancient tombstone, of
one entire block of coarse granite, nine feet above the
surface of the ground, supposed to be a memorial of
some of the Irish princes that fell in the battle of Clon-
tarf. About 40 years since, having fallen down, it was
again erected, on which occasion a number of Danish
coins was found, and also a sword of the same period;
the sword was placed by the master of the hospital in
the hall leading to his apartments, where it still re-
mains.
KILMAINHAM-WOOD, a parish, in the barony of
LOWER KELLS, county of MEATH, and province of
LEINSTER, 3 miles (N. W.) from Nobber, on the road
from Kells to Kingscourt; containing 1454 inhabitants,
of which number, 147 are in the village, in which are 25
houses. This parish is the property of Anthony Strong
Hussey, Esq.: there are some quarries of stone pro-
cured for building, a tuck and a corn-mill, and a few
looms employed by the inhabitants for their own use.
The village contains a constabulary police station and a
dispensary; a good fair for store cattle is held in it
on May 5th. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of
Meath, and in the gift of A. S. Hussey, Esq., in whom
the rectory is impropriate: the parish, is tithe free, and
the income of the vicar consists of a money payment
from the impropriator, with an augmentation from
Primate Boulter’s fund. There is neither glebe-house
nor glebe. The church is a plain building, erected in
1803, for the repairs of which the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners have recently granted £135. In the R. C.
divisions the parish is united with part of Bailiebo-
rough, or Moybologue, in the diocese of Kilmore, called
the union or district of Moybologue or Tivorcher, in
each of which is a chapel. There is a private school of
about 100 children.
KILMAINMORE, a parish, in the barony of KIL-
MAINE, county of MAYO, and province of CONNAUGHT,
3| miles (S. E.) from Ballinrobe, on the road from
Galway to Westport; containing 4176 inhabitants. It
comprises 8087 statute acres, principally in pasture, and
has excellent sheep pastures at Ellistron. Fine lime-
stone is quarried, and at the eastern extremity there is
a considerable quantity of reclaimable bog, but fuel is
scarce. Petty sessions are held every Wednesday at the
village, which is a constabulary police station, and has a
penny post to Hollymount. Fairs are held on July 12 th
and Oct. 28th, and are well supplied with cattle and sheep.