DARVER, a parish, in the barony and county of
LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (N.W.)
from Castle-Bellingham; containing 631 inhabitants.
It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 1992
statute acres of good arable and pasture land, of which
1935 are applotted tinder the tithe act. Darver Castle
is the seat of J. Booth, Esq. The living is a rectory, in
the diocese of Armagh, separated on the death of the
last incumbent from the parish of Dromiskin, pursuant
to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
in 1831, and in the patronage of the Lord-
Primate. The tithes amount to £230: the glebe comprises
1¾ acres, valued at £8 per annum. The ruins
of the church are near Darver Castle: there is no glebehouse.
In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union
or district, comprising Darver and Dromiskin, in each
of which is a chapel. There is a school under the
National Board, in which are about 190 boys and 150
girls.