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linen, and drugget. The principal seats are Cloghan
Lodge, the residence of SirT. C. Style, Bart., and Glen-
inore, of C. Style, Esq. A. manorial court formerly held
here was discontinued in 1831. The living is a per-
petual curacy, in the diocese of Raphoe, and in the pa-
tronage of the Rector of Stranorlar, to whom the rectory
is appropriate: the tithes amount to £126. The per-
petual curate’s income consists of £50 late currency
from the rector of Stranorlar, £25 from Primate Boul-
ter’s fund, and the glebe, valued at £16 per ann. The
glebe-house was built in 1799 by a gift of £450 and a
loan of £50 from the late Board of First Fruits; the
glebe comprises 30 acres. The church is a plain build-
ing. The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the
Established Church, and is called Glenfin, at which place
is the chapel, a plain building, erected in 1825 by sub-
scription. About 240 children are educated in three
public schools, one of which is aided by donations from
Col. Robertson’s fund, and 30 in a private school;
there are also a Sunday school and a dispensary.
KILTEGAN, a parish, partly in the barony of
RATHVILLY, county of CARXOW, and partly in the ba-
rony of BALLINACOR, but chiefly in that of UPPER
TALBOTSTOWN, county of WICKXOW, and province of
LETNSTER, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Hacketstown, on
the road to Baltinglass; containing 3815 inhabitants,
of which number, 136 are in the village. This parish
comprises 15,681 statute acres, under an improving
system of agriculture, and there is a large tract of bog
and mountain land. Limestone gravel is burnt for
manure, and granite is abundant. High Park is the
residence of E. H. Westby, Esq.; the original mansion
was burnt by the insurgents in 1798; the demesne,
which comprises about 400 statute acres, contains some
very fine old timber. Hume Wood is the residence of
W. W. Fitzwilliam, Esq. The village contains 22 houses
and a dispensary, and is a station of the peace preserva-
tion police, of which there is one also at Fortgranite.
A patent exists for eight fairs in the year, but none are
held. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin,
episcopally united, in 1804, to the rectory and vicarage
of Kilranelagh, and in the patronage of the Bishop by
agreement with the Crown; the rectory is impropriate
in Sir R. Steele, Bart. The tithes amount to £516, of
which £340 is payable to the impropriator, and £176 to
the vicar; the tithes of the union amount to £369.16.11.
Adjoining the church is the glebe-house, for the erection
of which the late Board of First Fruits, in 1816, gave
£400 and lent £370: the glebe comprises 20 acres, for
which £2 per acre is paid. The church is- a handsome
edifice with an embattled tower and spire, erected by a
gift of £500 and a loan of £320 from the same Board;
it was enlarged in 1826, at an expense of £1200, half of
which was defrayed by the Board, and has been recently
repaired by a grant of £191 from the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms
part of the union or district of Hacketstown, and has a
chapel at Kilmoat. In the village is a school supported
by the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity; the school-
house was built at an expense of £300; there are about
52 children of both sexes in the school. There is also
a national school for males and females; the school-
house is in the old chapel-yard. At High Park and
Kilmoat are raths; on opening one at the former place,
about three years since, an urn of coarse pottery was
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discovered, which contained ashes and bones. There
are ancient burial-places on the townlands of Kiltegan
and Drim.
KILTENNEL, a parish, in the barony of IDRONE
EAST, county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER,
3¾ miles (N. E. by N.) from Graigue, on the road to En-
niscorthy; containing 3206 inhabitants. It comprises
1826 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and
is in a wild district bordering on Mount-Leinster. The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in
the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate
in Lord Cloncurry. The tithes amount to £385, of
which £250 is payable to the impropriator, and £135
to the vicar. The church, which is in Killedmund, is a
neat building. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of
the union or district of Borris. There are a parochial
and a national school, in which about 280 children are
educated; and two private schools, in which are about
200 children. The ruins of the old church are covered
with ivy; there are also the remains of a chapel at
its eastern end, which was erected in 1789 by Capt.
E. Byrne, and the fragments of a granite cross and a
cairn.
KILTENNEL, or COURTOWN, a parish, in the
barony of BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, and
province of LEINSTER, 2 miles (S. E.) from Gorey, on
the sea-side road from Wexford to Dublin; containing
1389 inhabitants. This parish, which is also called Kil-
bride, is situated on the Irish Channel and bounded
on the south by the Awen-o-varra river; it comprises
4372 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, of
which the greater portion is under tillage and the re-
mainder good pasture and meadow land. The soil is
generally fertile and the system of agriculture im-
proving. On Tara Hill, of which the greater part is in
this parish, are some quarries of good building stone,
which supply the surrounding neighbourhood. Cour-
town, the elegant seat of the Earl of Courtown, is situ-
ated in a retired spot on the. banks of the Awen-o-varra,
which winds through the richly-wooded demesne; the
grounds are tastefully laid out, and from the house is
obtained a glance of the sea through a vista in the sur-
rounding plantations. Seafield, held by Walter Hore,
Esq, from the Earl of Courtown, is situated about a
mile and a half to the north of Courtown. There are
several boats belonging to this place, which are em-
ployed in the Courtown fishery, and great quantities
of cod are taken off the coast; but from the uncer-
tainty of the voyage to Dublin, by which the cargo is
frequently spoiled before it reaches the market, the
value of the fishery has been very much diminished.
To obviate this evil an act was obtained, in 1824, for
the construction of a harbour at or near the mouth of
the Awen-o-varra river, to be called the Courtown har-
bour. This work, originally planned and begun, by the
late A. Nimmo, Esq., was for a time much retarded in
its progress, from the shifting nature of the sands off the
coast, and from other unforeseen impediments; but
these obstacles have been surmounted, and the works,
which have been for the last two years under the direc-
tion of Francis Giles, Esq., engineer, who has greatly
improved the original plan, are now considerably ad-
vanced. A lock, 14 feet deep, and capable of admitting
vessels of upwards of 100 tons, has been constructed
of hewn granite, through which, by a diversion of