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KINSALEBEG, a parish, in. the barony of DECIES-WITHIN-DRUM, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, separated from the town of Youghal by the river Blackwaterj containing 2780 inhabitants. The soil is fertile, and there is a ferry to Youghal: at Piltown is a large flour-mill. The principal seats are D'Laughtane House, the residence of R. Power Ronayne, Esq. j Monatrea, of the Rev. Percy Scott Smyth $ Mayfield, of J. Gee, Esq.; Woodbine Hill, of G. Roch,Esq.; Springfield, of Mrs. Fitzgerald j Bayview, of M. Keane, Esq.; Rock Lodge, of R. Bailey, Esq.; Harbour View, of C. Ronayne, Esq.; and Ring, of Dominick Ronayne, Esq.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, united to that of Lisgenan, and in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire, in whom the rectory is impropriate: the tithes amount to £S10. 1. 1½., of which two-thirds are payable to the impropriator and one-third to the vicar; and the tithes of the benefice amount to £470. The glebe of the union comprises 10a. 3r. 36p. The church is a neat structure, erected by a gift of £600 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1821. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Clashmore, and has a chapel at Piltown. There is a private school, in which about 120 children are educated.

Near D'Laughtane House was formerly a castle, called Ballyheny. Piltown was formerly the residence of Judge Walsh, the supposed author of the commission to the insurgents in the reign of Chas. I. There is a large rath in the parish.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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The entry for Kinsalebeg from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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