CORDANGAN

In 1868, the parish of Cordangan contained the following places:

"CORDANGAN, (or Cardangan), a parish in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the county of Tipperary, province of Connaught, Ireland, 3 miles S.W. of Headford. Oola is its post town. It is situated on the road from Tipperary to the valley of the Aherlow, and stretches into the Golden Vale. The soil is amongst the richest in all Ireland. The surface is mountainous, rising 1,000 feet in the highlands of the W. part. The living is a suspended vicarage in the diocese of Emly. In the Roman Catholic arrangement the parish is united to Lattin. The principal seats are Brookville and Ballyglass.

"CARDANGAN, (or Curdangan), a parish, in the barony of CLANWILLIAM, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER; containing, with part of the town of Tipperary, 2345 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the road from Tipperary to the glen of Aherlow, and extends into a plain which for its fertility and beauty is called the Golden Vale: it contains some of the richest land in Ireland, although occasionally alternated with heathy mountain. The principal seats are Brookville, that of J. Sadleir, Esq., and Ballyglass, of Mrs. Slattery. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Emly, and is part of the union and corps of the prebend of Lattin in the cathedral of Emly; the rectory is impropriate in Wm. Moore, Esq. The tithes amount to £153. 15., of which £102. 10. is payable to the impropriator, and £51. 5. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions also it is part of the union or district of Lattin. Here is a free school under the trustees of Erasmus Smith's charity, which is more particularly noticed in the article on Tipperary, also a pay school, in which are about 30 boys and 10 girls."

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