Kilbride, County Kilkenny

In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Kilbride like this:

KILBRIDE, a parish, in the barony of IDA, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 5 ½ miles (W. by S.) from New Ross; containing 496 inhabitants, and 2665 statute acres. It is a vicarage, episcopally united, in 1779, to that of Kilcoan; the rectory is impropriate in the Rev. John Digby. The tithes amount to £90, which is equally divided between the vicar and the impropriator. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Slieuruagh.

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