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KNOCKMARK, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-DEECE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles (W. by N.) from Dunshaughlin, on the road to Trim; containing 724 inhabitants. It comprises 2776 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; and includes Warrenstown, the seat of J. Johnson, Esq.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, united by act of council, in 1811, to the vicarage of Colmolyn, and held with the impropriate cures of Derry and Kiltale; it is in the gift of the Crown. The tithes amount to £200, and of the entire benefice to £399. 10.  The glebe-house was built in 1814, by a gift of £100 and a loan, of £675, from the late Board of First Fruits; the glebe comprises 21 acres, valued at £42, and there is also a glebe of five acres in Colmolyn, valued at £10. 10. per annum. The church was built in 1811, by a loan of £900 from the same Board. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Dunshaughlin.  Here are two schools, in which about 50 children are educated.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

 

"DRUMREE, a village in the county of Dublin, Ireland, 18½ miles from Dublin by the Dublin and Meath railway, on which it is a station."

Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868  by Colin Hinson ©2018

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

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Historical Geography

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Land & Property

Tithe Applotment Books for county Meath and its  parishes are available online on the National Archives of Ireland website.

The entry for Knockmark from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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