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GRANGE, or GRANGEMONK, also called MONKSGRANGE, a parish, in the barony of Ballyadams, Queen's county, and province of Leinster, 4 miles (N.) from Carlow, on the river Barrow; containing 240 inhabitants. This parish comprises 841 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £490 per annum. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the gift of G. Hartpole, Esq., in whom the rectory is impropriate.

The tithes amount to £55. 7. 8¼., of which £36. 18. 5½. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. There is neither church, glebe-house, nor glebe. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Mayo, or Aries and Ballylinan. There is an old churchyard, which is the burial-place of the Hartpoie family, also the ruins of a castle.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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