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HORTLAND, or BALLYSCULLOGE, also called SCULLOGESTOWN, a parish, in the barony of IKEATHY and OUGHTERANY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from Kilcock, on the road from Naas to Enfield; containing 539 inhabitants. This parish is bounded on the south by the bog of Allen, and contains Hortland, the scat of Sir Josiah W. Hort, Bart.; and Knockanally, of W. Coates, Esq.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, forming part of the union of Kilcock; the rectory is impropriate in Lord Cloncurry. The tithes amount to £58. 18. 11. In the R. C. divisions also it forms part of the union or district of Kilcock.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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| Old Graveyard, Hortland, Cemetery |
| Old Graveyard, Hortland, Cemetery |
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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The entry for Scullogestown from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64
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