DYSART, a parish, in the barony of Fassadining,
county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 2¼
miles (S.) from Castlecomer, on the road to Kilkenny 3
containing 2501 inhabitants. This parish is situated
on the river Dinin; and comprises 2606 statute acres.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, appropriate
to the vicars choral of the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny;
the rectory is impropriate in the representatives
of Sir James Tynte, Bart. The tithes amount to
£300, of which £200 is paid to the impropriator, and
£100 to the vicars choral. There is no church; the
parishioners attend divine worship at Mothell. In the
R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of
Muckalee. About 90 children are educated in a public
school.