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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

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

"BANNOW, a parish in the barony of Bargy, in the county of Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 17 miles to the S.W. of Wexford, and 95 miles from Dublin. It occupies the peninsula tract between Bannow Bay on the N.W. and Ballyteigue Bay on the S.E., and contains the village of Carrig. Bannow was a town of importance before the reign of Edward I., and sent two members to the Irish parliament. It is not known at what time it became a borough. The old town is said to have been covered with drifted sand; and a few traces of it now exist on the isthmus at the entrance to the bay. A fragment of stone, supposed to have formed part of the chimney of the townhall, was removed to the churchyard, and upon it the burgesses elected the members of parliament until the Act of Union, in 1800. The inhabitants are now principally engaged in agriculture. The harbour only admits small craft. A coastguard station is established here. The living is a via., which, with the rectory of Kilkevan, constitutes the union of Bannow, in the diocese of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin. The neighbourhood attracts many visitors in the summer, and has many pleasant residences for their accommodation. The principal seat is Grange, the residence of the Rev. Richard Boyse, proprietor of great part of the parish. The agricultural school, opened here in 1821 by the Rev. W. Hickey, ceased to exist when he left the parish, in 1826; but the good it effected is still perceptible in the improved mode of agriculture, and the liberal use of sea-weed, which is occasionally thrown in on the coast in great abundance. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, and a parochial school maintained by the incumbent. There is no dispensary in the parish of Bannow, but one in Kilkevan, for the use of the adjoining parishes."

"KEERAGH or KEEROES ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands on the south coast of Wexford, Ireland, near the Saltees rocks."

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