Kill St. Nicholas

KILL-ST-NICHOLAS, a parish, chiefly in the barony of GAULTIER, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, but partly in the county of the city of WATERFORD, 5 miles (E.) from Waterford, and on Waterford harbour; containing, with the town of Passage, 1669 inhabitants. It comprises 2644 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, a very small quantity of bog, and abundance of good building stone. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Waterford, united episcopally, in 1813, to the rectory of Faithlegg, and is in the gift of the Crown: the tithes amount to £208. 12. 3., and of the union to £318. 12. 3. The church is at Pas- sage, and was lately repaired by a grant of £139 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Divine service is also performed, on Sunday evenings, in a school at Passage.

There is a glebe of 5a. 2r. lp., but no glebe-house. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parishes of Faithlegg and Killea, and has a chapel at Passage. About 120 children are educated in two public schools, of which the parochial school is aided by the archdeacon and the Marquess of Waterford; and 45 in two private schools. At Cross there are some vitriolic springs. See PASSAGE.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.