Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KILBRIDE

KILBRIDE, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLE-THIRD, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, 4 ½ miles (S. by W.) from Waterford, on the bay of Tramore; containing 483 inhabitants. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Waterford, entirely appropriate to the economy estate of the Cathedral, and forms, with the rectory of Island Ikane, the impropriate cure of Kilbride, which is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Waterford; the tithes amount to £74. 17. 3., and there is a glebe of three acres. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Dunhill. Here are the ruins of the old castle of Cullen.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kilbride IrlPar       Middlethird IrlBarony       Waterford IrlC
Place: Kilbride

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