Hide
Port
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
PORT, a parish, in the barony of FERRARD, county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 4¾ miles (E.) from Dunleer, on the eastern coast; containing 809 inhabitants, of which number, 193 are in the village. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 1803½ statute acres of tolerably good land, principally in tillage. Within its limits is Seafield, the neat and pleasantly situated residence of H. L. Brabazon, Esq.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Armagh, forming part of the union of Rathdrummin: the rectory is impropriate in the Crown. The tithes amount to £145. 9. 4. the whole of which is received by the vicar, on his paying an annual quit-rent at the custom-house of Drogheda of £2. 19. 6., and there is a glebe of three acres, valued at £5 per annum. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Dysert. About 290 children are educated in the national school at Boycetown; the school-house, a handsome and spacious building, was erected by subscription, to which Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart., liberally contributed.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
Hide
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Port to another place.
See the parish page on logainm.ie (The Placenames Database of Ireland)
The entry for Port from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64
Tithe Applotment Books 1823/37 for this parish on TNAI
You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference O1290689532 (Lat/Lon: 53.843127, -6.285408), Port which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Copy
712906,789532
and paste it into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland. - GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.