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GERNONSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of UPPER-SLANE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (W.) from Blanc, on the road from slane to Kingscourt; containing 925 inhabitants. Thin parish comprises 2394 statute acres, an allotted under the tithe act; the land is of good quality and is nearly equally divided between tillage and pasture. The; principal seats are Tankardstown, the residence of Mrs. Hopkins, situated in an extensive demesne surrounded by thriving plantations; and Roehestown, of J. Blakeney, Esq. The mail coach road from Dublin to Londonderry skirts the parish on the east, It is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, and part of the union of Stack alien: the tithes amount, to £'230. 15. 4., and the glebe comprises 20 acres of profitable land. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Slane; the chapel at Rushwee is a small plain building. A R. C. school is about to be placed under the New Board of Education, and about 50 children are taught in a private school.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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