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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Glashare contained the following places:"GLASHARE, a parish in the barony of Galmoy and Clarmallagh, counties Kilkenny and Queen's County, province of Leinster, Ireland, 3 miles N.E. of Johnstown. Rathdowney is its post town. The surface consists of a poorish soil, watered by a small stream falling into the Nore. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ossory, value with Rathdowney, £763, in the patronage of the bishop. There is a private day school. In the Roman Catholic arrangement the parish is included in the Eirke district."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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