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KIL
laid out, and commanding extensive and varying views
of the scenery of the Slaney. On a rocky eminence in
Lower Kyle, overlooking the river, is a monumental
obelisk, erected in 1786 by the Rev. C. Harvey, D.D.,
to commemorate the exertions and patriotism of Gen.
George Ogle and the independent volunteers of Ireland,
the first corps of which was raised in this county. The
“Kyle Model Gardens,” lately established by C. G. Har-
vey, Esq., (who has appropriated nearly eleven statute
acres of his best land for that purpose) are intended for
the practical instruction of the labourer in garden husban-
dry, in order to the due improvement of an allotment of
half a rood of land to each of six labourers’ families, for
the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and bees, on
the system of the “London Labourers’ Friend Society,”
and for the profitable employment of his spare time
without interfering with his ordinary occupation. This
garden, besides affording perfect specimens of cottage
gardening on a minute scale, under the superinten-
dence of an experienced gardener, who will give gra-
tuitous instruction, will also contain a patch of land
devoted solely to the support of a cow, in order to give
the small holder a practical proof of what may be ac-
complished by good management on a very small al-
lotment. Mr. Harvey has liberally undertaken to ad-
vance the funds requisite to render this institution
available to the promotion of horticulture and rural eco-
nomy, with a view to improve the physical and moral
condition of the labourer. Some handsome cottage re-
sidences have been lately erected on the Kyle estate, of
which that called Broomley is occupied by C. Huson,
Esq., and Kyle Cottage, by Capt. Dayrell; Sion Hill,
the residence of A. Lyster, Esq., is also in the parish.
On the Saunderscourt demesne is a quarry of conglome-
rate or pudding stone, which is used for building, but
not worked to any great extent. A brewery has lately
been built at the village of Kyle; a penny post to En-
niscorthy and Wexford has been established, and there
is also a constabulary police station.
This parish was formerly included in the union of
Ardcolme, from which it was separated in 1829, and,
with the greater portion of the contiguous parish of
Tickillen, formed into a distinct parish. The living is
a vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, and in the patronage
of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of
Arran. The tithes amount to £146. 18. 5., of which
£61. 7. 5. is payable to the impropriator, and £85. 11.
to the vicar; the entire tithes of the union payable to the
incumbent amount to £145. 11. The church, which
was for some years the domestic chapel of Saunders-
court, has a handsome Norman doorway, which was
removed from the ruins of the old church of Bally-
naslaney; under the altar are interred the remains of
the first Earl of Arran. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district called Crossabeg,
comprising also the parishes of Artramont, Tickillen, and
a portionof Kilmallog; the chapel, near Crossabeg, is a
plain neat building, adjoining which is a house for the
priest; there is also a chapel at Ballymourne. Two
neat school-houses in the Swiss cottage style were built
a few years since by Mr. C. G. Harvey, by whom the
school for boys is wholly supported; the other for girls
has recently been aided by a grant of £12 per arm. from
the National Board. An association of Ladies for the
employment of the female poor in spinning and weaving
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was established in 1823, and is supported by subscrip-
tions of the resident gentry of this and the neighbouring
parishes; and a branch of the Scryne and Ardcolme dis-
pensary has been recently opened at Kyle. The Kyle
Charitable Loan Fund, established in 1835, has been
attended with the most beneficial results. Some fossil
remains, consisting of a pair of antlers of the elk or
moose deer, of large dimensions, were lately found at
Kyle.
KILPEACON, a parish, partly in the baronies of
COSHMA, COSTLEA, and PUBBLEBRIEN, but chiefly in
that of SMALL COUNTY, county of LIMERICK, and pro-
vince of MUNSTER, 4 1 /2 miles (S.) from Limerick, on the
road to Fedamore; containing 947 inhabitants. This
parish comprises 1189 statute acres, as applotted under
the tithe act: the land is generally of good quality and
very productive, though the system of agriculture is far
from being in an improved state; the substratum is
limestone. The fences, except around the demesnes,
consist chiefly of loose stones, but in various parts the
scenery is pleasingly varied, and in some highly inter-
esting. The manor was granted, in the reign of Jas. I.,
to William King, Esq., who erected a very strong castle,
which has recently been taken down. The park was ex-
tensive and well planted; part of it remains, and the oaks
are some of the finest and most stately in the country.
The late proprietor, on taking down the old castle,
erected a very handsome mansion on a more elevated
site, which is now the property and residence of E.
Cripps Villiers, Esq. Ballyclough, the residence of E.
Moroney, Esq., and Leamonfield, of H. Bevan, Esq.,
are also in the parish. The living is a rectory, in the
diocese of Limerick, united by act of council, in 1803,
to the vicarage of Knocknegaul, together constituting
the corps of the prebend of Kilpeacon in the cathedral
of Limerick, and in the patronage of the Bishop. The
tithes amount to £92. 6. 2., and of the entire benefice
(including the Hackneys, a detached portion of the pa-
rish in the barony of Costlea, and separately compound-
ed for) to £323. 1. 6 1 /2. The glebe-house was rebuilt
in 1817, by a gift of £250 and a loan of £550 from the
late Board of First Fruits; the glebe, which is situated
in Knocknegaul, comprises 11 acres. The church, a
neat edifice with a square embattled tower, was in 1762
destroyed by the whiteboys, and rebuilt the following
year; in 1820 it was enlarged, for which purpose the
late Board granted a loan of £400; it contains a hand-
some monument to Sir William King. In the R. C.
divisions the parish is partly in the union or district of
Fedamore, and partly in that of Loughmore. The pa-
rochial school is built on an acre of land given by the
late E. Villiers, Esq., and is supported by subscription,
aided by an annual donation from the rector. There is
a dispensary in the parish. In the neighbourhood is a
place called Bawnachumtha, or the “Camp Field,” in
which are some raths and circular fortifications; and
on the summit of Greenhill is a rath or doon, about
320 feet in circumference and 18 feet high. In the ad-
joining fields are several smaller forts, surrounded by
a single vallum and quite level within; near these forts
a crown of gold, in the form of a shell, and weighing
5 1 /2 ounces, was dug up by a peasant in 1821, and sold
to a goldsmith in Dublin for £18. 18.
KILPEDDER, a village, in the parish of KILCOOLE,
barony of NEWCASTLE, county of WICKLOW, and pro-