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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Whitechurch contained the following places:"WHITECHURCH, a parish in the baronies of Bantry and Shelburne, county Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 4 miles S.W. of New Ross. It is situated on the Ross or Barrow river, under Slievekieltre Hill, a lofty eminence, partly in this parish, where the insurgents, under the Rev. Philip Roche, encamped in 1798, and succeeded in destroying a gun brig lying off Pilltown. The land is chiefly under tillage, and the system of agriculture has in particular instances been brought to a high state of perfection. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Ferns, united to that of Kilmokea, constituting the corps of the Prebend of Whitechurch in the cathedral of Ferns."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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