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DULEEN, or DULANE, a parish, in the barony of UPPER-KELLS, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (N.) from Kelts, on the road to Moynaltyj containing 1503 inhabitants. It comprises 4150 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the land is generally of good quality; and the system of agriculture is improved. There is a sufficient quantity of bog for fuel, and there are quarries of limestone and freestone. The gentlemen's seats are Maprath, that of T. Taylor Rowley, Esq.; Williamston, of the Rev. G. Garnett; Willmount, of J. Radcliff, Esq.; and Oakley Park, of Capt. Graham.
It is a chapelry, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Kells and corps of the archdeaconry of Moath: the tithes amount to £'200; the glebe comprises 2a. 3r, 17p. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district called Carnaross, comprising also the parish of Loghan, in each of which in a chapel; the chapel of Duleen is a neat edifice. There is a private school, in which are about 50 children. There arc some ancient crosses in Kiern churchyard, paid to have been placed there by a saint of that name, which are held in great veneration by the peasantry.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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St Cairnech, Dulane, Catholic |
St Cairnech, Dulane, Catholic |
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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The entry for Dulane from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64
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