9
Localidades
600
Registros censales
127
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 316
- Hogares
- 64
- Personas
- 284 -10.1%
- Hogares
- 63 -1.6%
Acerca de
GIRLEY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER KELLS, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2 ½ miles (N.) from Athboy, on the road from Mullingar to Navan; containing 1480 inhabitants. This parish comprises 4637 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: about two-thirds are grass land of excellent quality, and the remainder under good cultivation, with the exception of a considerable tract of bog extending into the neighbouring parish of Burry; there are some thriving plantations. The principal seats are Drewstown, the residence of F. McVeigh, Esq., a handsome house in a highly improved demesne; Johnsbrook, of J. Tandy, Esq., pleasantly situated in grounds tastefully embellished; and Triermore, of T. Rotheram, Esq. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Athboy; the rectory is impropriate in Dominick O'Reilly, Esq. The tithes amount to £207. 1. 7., one-half payable to the impropriator and the other to the vicar; there is no glebe-house; the glebe comprises 1 ½ acre. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Kells; the chapel at Fordstown is a handsome modern building, erected in 1800. About 60 children are taught in a private school, of which the school-house is occupied rent-free. There are some remains of the ancient parish church.
Source: Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)
- Condado
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Baronía
Kells Upper
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Nombre en irlandés
An Ghreallaigh
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Localidades
9 localidades
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Griffith's Valuation
National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)
27 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 8 townlands (1830s-1850s).
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Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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