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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

In 1868, the parish of Dunderrow contained the following places:

"DUNDERROW, a parish in the baronies of East Muskerry, Kinalea, and Kinsale, in the county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 3 miles N.W. of Kinsale, its post town. It lies along the N. bank of the river Bandon. The surface is boggy and mountainous. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Cork, value £375, in the patronage of J. E. Kearney, Esq. The church, though small, is an elegant structure, built in 1821 by the late Board of First Fruits. There is a marble monument in the churchyard. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to that of Kinsale. There is a day school, and a dispensary within the Kinsale Poor-law Union. Kinsale was occupied by a party of Spanish troops in 1601, and the English forces took up a position on the Doon, from which the parish derives its name, but few traces of it are now visible. A castle formerly stood here belonging to the Roche family. Salmon are caught in the Bandon."

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