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Place name County Entry Source CASHEL Tipperary CASHEL , a city (being the seat of an archbishoprick and diocese), borough, market, and post-town, in the barony of Lewis:Ireland CLONFERT Cork west to south-east, and contains 64,871 acres, valued for the county cess at £19,677 per annum. About half the parish consists of bog and mountain; the other half of arable and pasture land of inferior quality. There are extensive beds of culm, some of which, near Newmarket, have been but are not now worked. This district has been much benefited by the road from Cork to Abbeyfeale, which was constructed soon after the distress in 1822; and much further benefit would be produced by connecting that road with the new Government road from Roskeen bridge, through Lewis:Ireland CLOYNE Cork west side of the cathedral, which was plundered in 978 by the people of Ossory, and again, in 1089, by Dermot, the son of Fiordhealbhach O'Brien. The town is pleasantly situated in a level or slightly undulating plain, and is well sheltered by rising grounds and plantations, which give great amenity to the climate. It comprises two streets intersecting each other at right angles, and contains 330 houses, most of which are small and irregularly built. The bishop's palace is a large edifice, built by Bishop Crow, in 1718, and enlarged by several of the succeeding prelates Lewis:Ireland CORK Cork west, which once defended the city wall; its site is now occupied by an alms-house: the altar is ornamented with fluted Corinthian pilasters, and on its south side was a monument to the memory of Sir Matthew Deane and his lady, of the date of 1710, now removed to the further end of the church. The living of St. Mary's Shandon is a rectory and vicarage, with the rectory of St. Catharine, near Shandon, which has merged into it, united from time immemorial, and in the alternate patronage of the Duke of Leinster, and the Rev. Robert Longfield Lewis:Ireland DARTFORD Kent west of the town. Richard Plantagenet encamped on the heath in 1452; and Fairfax, in 1648. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £534.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester.The sub-district contains the parishes of Dartford, Stone-near-Dartford, Swanscombe, Darenth, Wilmington, and Sutton-at-Hone. Acres, 17, 675. Pop., 13, 180. Houses, 2, 499. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Bexley, containing the parishes of Bexley, East Wickham, Erith, and Crayford; and the sub-district of Farningham, containing the parishes of Farningham, Horton-Kirby, Eynesford, Lullingstone, Kingsdown, Ridley, Ash, Hartley Imperial Langfield Tyrone Langfield . See LONGFIELD, EAST and WEST. Bartholomew LEITRIM Leitrim LEITRIM (County of): a county, of which a very small portion is maritime, in the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on Lewis:Ireland LISLEE Cork Longfield, Esq.; Butlerstown, of Jonas Travers, Esq.; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. J. Stewart. The seneschal of the Earl of Shannon has the power of holding a court baron here for the recovery of debts not exceeding 40s. late currency, which has merged into that of Timoleague, where the courts are now held. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ross, episcopally united in 1705 to the rectory of Kilsillagh, together constituting the union of Lislee, in the patronage of the Bishop: the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Shannon. The tithes amount Lewis:Ireland Longfield, West Tyrone Longfield, West , par., W. co. Tyrone, adjacent to East Longfield, 23,904 ac., pop. 3486. Bartholomew MALLOW Cork MALLOW , a borough, market-town, and parish, partly in the barony of DUHALLOW, but chiefly in that of FERMOY, county Lewis:Ireland NOGHEVAL, or NOUGHOVAL Westmeath WEST, county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from Ballymore, on the road from Athlone to Ballymahon; containing 4154 inhabitants. It is bounded on the west by Lough Ree, and the navigable river Inny flows through its northern portion. A monastery of Dominican friars was founded at Ardnacraney, in the 14th century, by Robert Dillon, of Drumraney. Several battles were fought here between the Irish and the Danes. The parish comprises 11,520 statute acres, of which 11,371 are applotted under the tithe act: agriculture is improving; the land is chiefly under pasture, with Lewis:Ireland
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