ADNITH, or ATHNETT, a parish, in the barony
of ELIOGARTY, county of TIPPERARY, and province of
MUNSTER, 4¼ miles (S. by E.) from Templemore, on the
river Suir, and on the road from Thurles to Templemore
and Rathdowney; containing 253 inhabitants. It comprises
826 statute acres, and in the Down survey and
county books is not noticed as a parish, but as forming
a part of the parish of Rahelty, which was part of the
possessions of the abbey of Woney. It is a vicarage, in
the diocese of Cashel, and forms part of the union of
Thurles; the rectory is impropriate in Edward Taylor,
Esq. The tithes amount to £72, of which £39 is payable
to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.
In the R. C. divisions also it is part of the union or district
of Thurles.