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CASTLEINCH

"Castleinch", or Inchiolaghan, also called Brownstown, a parish, in the barony of Shillelogher, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 2 miles (S. W.) from Kilkenny, on the road to Cork; containing 472 inhabitants. It comprises 3436 statute acres, and has petty sessions every fortnight. Here is Desart House, the residence of the Earl of Desart, and the place from which he takes his title. The mansion is a large and elegant building of hewn stone, in a demesne of more than 400 plantation acres, which contains some remarkable fine oak timber. The other principal seats are Castle Bamford, Tinny Park, Bamford glebe. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, united by act of council, about 1676, to the vicarage of Tullohanbrogue and the prebend of Outrath, which together form the union of Inchiolaghan and the corps of the chancellorship of the diocese of Ossory, in the patronage of the Crown. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 33 acres. The church is an ancient edifice; it is the burial place of the Cuffe family. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of St. Patrick's, and has a chapel. Here is a public school of about 90 children, and a private school of about 70.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

Church Records

Civil Parish: Castleinch (or Incholaghan). RC Parish: St. Patrick's.
Earliest Records: b. Aug 1800; m. Jul 1801.

Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library) 

Civil 		Roman Catholic	Time 		FHLC
parish		parish		period		number
Castleinch or	St Patricks	not available
Inchyolaghan

Historical Geography

Townlands (1851) 
Parish		Townland		Acres	Diocese
Castleinch	Aughtanny		171	Ossory    
Castleinch	Brownstown     		209	Ossory    
Castleinch	Castleinch or Inchyolaghan 447	Ossory    
Castleinch	Derdimus		129	Ossory    
Castleinch	Garraun			181	Ossory    
Castleinch	Glebe			51	Ossory    
Castleinch	Goslingstown   		311	Ossory    
Castleinch	Grange      		25	Ossory    
Castleinch	Knocklegan   		60	Ossory    
Castleinch	Parkmore       		160	Ossory    
Castleinch	Raheenapisha      	212	Ossory    
Castleinch	Rathaleek		169	Ossory    
Castleinch	Woodlands  		234	Ossory
Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 10 Apr 1999

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