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"KILMACANOGE, a parish and village in the barony of Rathdown, county Wicklow, province of Leinster, Ireland, 3 miles S.S.W. of Bray, its post town. The parish is about 3 miles square, and contains Kilmurray. The surface is extremely mountainous, containing the great Sugarloaf Mountain, 1,651 feet high. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Dublin, value with Delgany, £500, in the patronage of the archbishop. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to those of Bray and Stagonil. There are a Roman Catholic Sunday-school and two day schools. Several seats adorn the neighbourhood."
"CHARLEVILLE, the seat of the Earl of Rathdown, in the half barony of Rathdown, in the county of Wicklow, province of Ulster, Ireland. It stands about 3 miles to the S.W. of Bray. The spot is one of much beauty, and luxuriance."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018]