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BURNCHURCH
"Burnchurch", or Kiltraneen,
a parish, partly in the barony of Galmoy, but
chiefly in that of Shillelogher, county of Kilkenny, and province of
Leinster, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Kilkenny; containing 1450 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the road from Kilkenny to Carrick-on-Suir, and
comprises 5373 statute acres: it is principally under an improved system of
tillage; there is plenty of limestone, used chiefly for burning into lime.
Farmley, the seat of R. Flood, Esq., is situated in a well-planted demesne,
and was the residence of Rt. Hon. Henry Flood, one of the most distinguished
members of the Irish House of Commons in 1791. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Ossory, to which the vicarages of Danesfort, Kilfeara,
Abbey-Jerpoint, West-Jerpoint, Ballylinch, and Grangeleggan or Grangeclovan,
and the denominations of Dunbell, Grange-Kilree, Woollen-Grange, Blackrath-Grange,
Garran, Mocktown or Rathbin, Ardera, Lismatigue, and Plebestown have been
immemorially united and were consolidated by act of council in 1678, forming
the union of Burnchurch, which is in the alternate patronage of the Crown
and the Bishop; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of the
cathedral of Christchurch, Dublin: the tithes of the parish amount to £320.
12. 6. payable in moeities to the vicars choral and the vicar. The church is
a neat edifice with a steeple, the glebe-house built in 1810, and the glebe
comprises 20 acres. In the R. C. divisions the parish is included in the
four several unions or districts of Danesfort, Freshford, Moncoin, and
Ballyhale.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]Church Records
Civil Parish: Burnchurch. RC Parishes: Danesfort; Freshford; Mooncoin, Ballyhale.
Danesfort - Earliest Records: b. Jan 1819; m. Jan 1824.
Freshford - Earliest Records: b. Jan 1773; m. Aug 1775.
Mooncoin - Earliest Records: b. Dec 1797; m. Jan 1772.
Ballyhale - originally part of R. C. parishes of Aghavillar and E. Thomastown
Civil Roman Catholic Time FHLC
parish parish period number
Burnchurch Danesfort 1819-1876 0926193
Historical Geography
Townlands (1851)
Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 10 Apr 1999
Parish Townland Acres Diocese
Burnchurch Ballymack (Desart) 374 Ossory
Burnchurch Ballymack (Flood) 200 Ossory
Burnchurch Ballyroberts 146 Ossory
Burnchurch Booly 261 Ossory
Burnchurch Burnchurch 588 Ossory
Burnchurch Burnchurch Viper 227 Ossory
Burnchurch Coalsfarm 264 Ossory
Burnchurch Farmley 255 Ossory
Burnchurch Graigue Lower 129 Ossory
Burnchurch Graigue Upper 241 Ossory
Burnchurch Newlands 148 Ossory
Burnchurch Oldtown 390 Ossory
Burnchurch Paddock 60 Ossory
Burnchurch Sunhill 47 Ossory
Burnchurch Washer's Bog 26 Ossory
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