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The glebe-house was built in 1814, by a gift of £100
and a loan, of £675, from the late Board of First Fruits;
the glebe comprises 21 acres, valued at £42, and there
is also a glebe of five acres in Colmolyn, valued at
£10. 10. per annum. The church was built in 1811,
by a loan of £900 from the same Board. In the R. C.
divisions it forms part of the union or district of Dun-
shaughlin. Here are two schools, in which about 50
children are educated.
KNOCKMOURNE, or KNOCKMORE, a parish,
partly in the barony of BARRYMORE, partly in that of
CONDONS and CLONGIBBONS, but chiefly in that of
KINNATALOON, county of CORK, and province of MUN-
STER, 6 miles (N. W.) from Tallow, on the road to Rath-
cormac; containing 3144 inhabitants. It comprises
7514 statute acres, of which 75 are woodland, 250 bog,
and the remainder arable land: the soil is good, and
there is much limestone and some brown stone. It is
a vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, united at an un-
known period, by act of council, to the vicarage of Bally-
noe, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory
is impropriate in the corporation of Waterford. The
tithes amount to £1070. 12. 9., which is equally divided
between the impropriators and the vicar, and the tithes
of the benefice to £840. 7. 4½. The glebe comprises
three acres. The church was rebuilt by a loan of £300
from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1813. In the
R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district,
which includes the parishes of Knockmoume, Ballynoe,
and Mogealy; and has chapels at Conna, Ballynoe, and
Lisnabrint. Here is a private school, in which about
70 children are educated.
KNOCKMOY.—See ABBEYKNOCKMOY.
KNOCKNEGAUL, a parish, partly in the barony
of PUBBLEBRIEN, county of LIMERICK, and partly in
the county of the city of LIMERICK, province of MUN-
STER, 4 miles (S.) from Limerick, on the road to Feda-
more; containing 1381 inhabitants. This parish com-
prises 2097 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe
act; the land is in general good, and the system of
agriculture improving; the fences are, however, but
very indifferent, consisting of low walls of loose stones,
except in the neighbourhood of Leamonfield, where the
country is exceedingly interesting. The principal seats
are Leamonfield, that of H. Bevan, Esq.; and Bally-
clough, of E. Moroney, Esq., both pleasantly situated
and commanding some finely varied scenery. The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Limerick; the
rectory forms part of the union of Nantinan and the
corps of the precentorship, and the vicarage, part of the
union and corps of the prebend of Kilpeacon in the ca-
thedral of Limerick. The tithes amount to £230. 15.4½.,
of which £154. 16. 10 is payable to the precentor, and
the remainder to the vicar. The glebe-house is a hand-
some residence, and the glebe comprises 11 acres. In
the R. C. divisions the parish is part of the union or
district of Loughmore. The ruins of the ancient church,
which was destroyed during the war of 1641, are close
to the glebe-house.
KNOCKRATH, a constablewick, or sub-denomina-
tion of the parish of RATHDRUM, barony of BALLINA-
COR, county of WICKLOW, and province of LEINSTER,
3½ miles (N. W.) from Rathdrum, on the road to Glen-
dalough; containing 2081 inhabitants. It is in the
beautiful vale of Clara, and comprises 1856 statute
240
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acres, as applottea under the tithe act; and forms part
of the rectory and vicarage of Rathdrum, in the diocese
of Dublin and Glendalough; the tithes amount to
£134. 14. 2½. In the R. C. divisions also it is in the
union or district of Rathdrum, and has a chapel in the
village of Clara, in which also is a public school. Here
are some remains of an old castle and a rath.
KNOCKTEMPLE, a parish, in the barony of Du-
HALLOW, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
10 miles (S. W.) from Charleville, on the new road from
Newcastle to Mallow; containing 1801 inhabitants. It
is situated on the river Allua, near the northern confines
of the county, and comprises 7737 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £4125 per
annum. Part of the extensive bog called the Red Bog
is within its limits; and a vein of culm has been lately
discovered, but not yet worked. The seats are Castle
Ishen, the family mansion of Sir James Fitzgerald,
Bart., and Glenfield, an old mansion belonging to
the Boyle family. The living is a rectory, in the dio-
cese of Cloyne, united by act of council to the impro-
priate cure of Kilbolane, constituting the union of
Knocktemple, in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes
amount to £250, and the income of the benefice,
including the stipend of the impropriate curacy, to
£256. 3. 1. There is a glebe of 3 acres in this parish.
The church of the union is in Kilbolane. In the
R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Freemount, which also comprises the parish of Kil-
bolane and the greater part of Shandrum, and contains
the chapels of Freemount, Millford, and Kilbolane. At
Freemount in this parish, is a national school, in which
about 60 children are educated; and a similar number
are taught in a private school. Adjoining the mansion
at Castle Ishen are the ruins of the ancient structure,
from which it derives its name.
KNOCKTOPHER, a town and parish (formerly a
parliamentary borough), in the barony of KNOCKTO-
PHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER,
10 miles (S.) from Kilkenny, on the road to Waterford;
containing 1518 inhabitants, of which number, 475 are
in the town. This place was the principal residence of
the Butlers, Earls of Ormonde, of whom James, the
second Earl, in 1356, founded a monastery for Carmelite
friars, of which the first prior, Henry Brown, received
two parts of the temporalities of the see of Ossory,
then in the King’s hands; and the last prior, William,
was made bishop of that diocese by Edw. VI. The site
and revenues of the establishment, at the dissolution,
were granted by Hen. VIII. to Patrick Barnwell; and a
regrant of the abbey and lands was made subsequently
by Jas. I. to Sir Nicholas White, Knt., from whose
representatives the ancestor of the present proprietor,
the Rev. Sir Hercules Richard Langrishe, purchased
them. In 1365, the same Earl obtained from Edw.
III. the grant of a weekly market and several fairs;
and the town appears to have enjoyed the privileges
of a free borough by a kind of prescriptive right, which
was acknowledged in a charter of Jas. II. that never
came into operation. The castle was taken in 1649 by
the parliamentarian forces commanded by Cromwell in
person, and by his orders was immediately demolished.
The inhabitants first sent members to the Irish parlia-
ment in 1661, and continued to do so till the Union,
when the borough was disfranchised. The inhabitants