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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"KELLISTOWN, a parish in the baronies of Carlow and Forth, in the county of Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 6 miles N.W. of Carlow, its post town. It consists of two detached districts, one in each barony. The parish extends through the valley of the Burren, and is traversed by the road from Tullow to Carlow. The soil is good. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Leighlin, value £320, in the patronage of the crown and diocesan alternately. The church is a small edifice built by the late Board of First Fruits in 1810. It is part of the Roman Catholic district of Gilbertstown. Moyle is the seat of Captain B. M. Clintock, M.P. Here are ruins of the ancient church, near which formerly stood a round tower, removed in 1807. Here is also an ancient burial-place of the sept Mac Cummins."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018]