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PORTNASCULLY

"Portnascully", or Portnescully, a parish, in the barony of Iverk, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 3 miles (N. W.) from Waterford, on the river Suir; containing 1084 inhabitants. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Poleroan; the rectory is impropriate in the corporation of Waterford. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Moncoin, and contains the chapel of Carrigeen. About 240 boys are educated in two private schools; there is also a Sunday school.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

Church Records

Civil Parish: Portnascully. RC Parish: Mooncoin.
Earliest Records: b. Dec 1797; m. Jan 1772.

Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library) 
Civil 		Roman Catholic	Time 		FHLC
parish		parish		period		number
Portnascully	Mooncoin 	not available

Historical Geography

Townlands (1851) 
Parish		Townland		Acres	Diocese
Portnascully	Ballygorey       	488	Ossory    
Portnascully	Clasharoe        	56	Ossory    
Portnascully	Corluddy		331	Ossory    
Portnascully	Cussana			124	Ossory    
Portnascully	Glengrant		72	Ossory    
Portnascully	Licketstown   		342	Ossory    
Portnascully	Luffany			444	Ossory    
Portnascully	Moonveen		326	Ossory    
Portnascully	Portnascully      	265	Ossory
Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 17 Apr 1999

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