DUNGOURNEY

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

"DUNGOURNEY, a parish in the baronies of Barrymore and Imokilly, county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles N. of Castlemartyr. Middleton is its post town. It stands on the stream which bears its name and flows into Cork harbour. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Cloyne, value £510, in the patronage of the representatives of the late E. Wilson, Esq. The church is a plain building, erected in 1800 by the late Board of First Fruits. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to those of Clonmult and Mogeely. There are a National and a pay day school, also an agricultural school at Brookdale."

"COURAGH, a village in the barony of Imokilly, in the county of Cork, Ireland, 2 miles from Dungourney."

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