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St. Margarets (Forth Barony)

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MARGARET'S-ST, a parish, in the barony of FORTH, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 1 mile (S. E.) from Broadway, on the south-eastern coast; containing 112 inhabitants. It comprises 440½ statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, chiefly the property of G. W. Nunn, Esq.

It is an impropriate cure, in the diocese of Ferns, endowed with the small tithes, and forming part of the union of Tacumshane (also called the union of Kilscoran) and the corps of the chancellorship; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth. The tithes amount to £48. 1. 9., of which £15. 5. 11. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the incumbent. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Lady's Island.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Gazetteers

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

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of St. Margarets (Forth Barony) contained the townlands of:
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Land & Property

The entry for St. Margarets (Forth Barony) from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64 (scroll down)

Tithe Applotment Books 1823/37 for this parish on NAI

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