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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Kilsheelan contained the following places:"KILSHEELAN, a parish and village partly in the barony of East Iffa and Offa, county Tipperary, and partly in the barony of Upper Third, county Waterford, province of Munster, Ireland, 5 miles N.W. of Carrick-on-Suir, and 12 from Waterford. Newross is its post town. It is a station on the Waterford and Limerick railway. The surface is bisected by the river Suir, and the road from Clonmel to Waterford, upon which stands the village, passes through the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lismore, value £184. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to those of Kilgrant and Kilcash. There are two day schools. Gurteen is the principal seat. Here is a police station and a dispensary, which is within the Clonmel Poor-law Union. Sandstone is the prevailing rock."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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