GLANKEEN, a parish, in the barony of KILNEMANAGH,
county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
on the road from Thurles to Nenagh;. containing, with
the post-town of Burris-o-lough 6585 inhabitants. It
comprises 14,215 statute acres, of which ‘230 are reclaimable
mountain. Limestone is quarried for immure,
and coal is supposed to exist in the mountains. Summer
Hill, the residence of J. H. Harden, Esq., and Callohill
Castle are in the parish. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Cashel, and in the patronage of the
Archbishop; the rectory forms the corps of the prebend
of Glankeen in the cathedral of Cushel, and in the
gift of the Crown. The tithes amount to £600, of which
£400 is paid to the archbishop, us prebendary of Glankeen,
and £200 to the vicar. There is a glebe-house,
with a glebe of 11 acres. The church is a plain building,
erected about 1776, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
have lately granted £147 for its repairs.
The R. C. parish ia co-extensive with that of the Established
Church, and is called Burris-o'-leagh; the
chapel is at that place, and there is another at Heigh.
The parochial school, to which the lute Lady Caroline
Darner gave If acre of land, is aided by the rector; and
there are three national schools; they afford instruction
to about 350 children. About 280 children are taught
in seven private schools. Large horns of an elk have
been dug up here. There are the ruins of an ancient
church, partly covered with ivy, and containing a monument
to the family of Burke; and at Kileuilawn,
situated in the mountains, the celebrated relic called
Barnaan- Cuilawn was found in a hollow tree many years
since. It is composed of iron and brass inlaid with
gold and silver, having some resemblance in shape to
a mitre, and is supposed to have been the top of a censer
belonging to St. Cuilen, who founded a church here in
the 10th century; it is now in the possession of Mr.
Cooke, of Parsonstown, and forms the subject of an article
in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, In
1821 the remains of an ancient mill were discovered
near the church. See BURRIS-O-LEAGH.