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KILBRACKEN, or BALLYBRACKEN, a parish, partly in the barony of UPPER-PHILIPSTOWN, an isolated portion of KING'S COUNTY, and partly in that of WEST-OPHALY, in the county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 3¼ miles (S. E.) from Monastereven, on the road to Athy; containing 1216 inhabitants. It comprises 2747 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £1542. 5. per annum.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, and in the patronage of the Marquess of Drogheda: the tithes amount to £138. 9. 3. About 100 children are educated in the parochial school.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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The entry for Ballybrackan from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64
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