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"Pleberstown", or Plebestown, a reputed parish, locally situated in the parish of Abbey-Jerpoint, barony of Knocktopher, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster; containing 237 inhabitants, and comprising 1432 statute acres. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde: for the performance of ecclesiastical duties it forms part of the union of Burnchurch.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

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Church Records

Civil Parish: Pleberstown. RC Parish: Thomastown.
Earliest Records: b. Jun 1782; m. Jan 1786.

Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library)

 Civil           Roman Catholic  Time            FHLC 
parish           parish           period           number 
Pleberstown     Thomastown pt   1782-1833       0926202 
                                1834-1880       0926203
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Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

Townlands (1851) 
 Parish         Townland                Acres   Diocese 
Pleberstown     Dysart                  239     Ossory     
Pleberstown     Pleberstown             659     Ossory
The civil parish of Pleberstown contained the townlands of:
Dysart,
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Maps

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