Monksgrange Civil Parish
County Leix/Laois

Barony Ballyadams
Poor Law Union Athy
Catholic Diocese Kildare & Leighlin
Catholic Parish Arles

 

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 Arles and Ballylinan.  There is an old churchyard, which is the burial-place of the Hartpole family, also the ruins of a castle.
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837

 

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Townland

Grange

 

 

LDS Film Numbers

Film Title Film number(s)
Tithe Applotments, 1833 #256667
Griffith's Valuation, 1850 #101757
1901 Ireland Census #850459
1911 Ireland Census, Townland: Grange #2193078

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Civil Parish Links

Griffith's Valuation, Monksgrange Civil Parish, ConnorsGenealogy website
Griffith's Valuation Index, Monksgrange Civil Parish, John Hayes' website
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