KNOCKMOURNE, or KNOCKMORE, a parish,
partly in the barony of BARRYMORE, partly in that of
CONDONS-AND-CLONGIBBONS, but chiefly in that of
KINNATALOON, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
6 miles (N. W.) from Tallow, on the road to Rathcormac;
containing 3144 inhabitants. It comprises
7514 statute acres, of which 75 are woodland, 250 bog,
and the remainder arable land: the soil is good, and
there is much limestone and some brown stone. It is
a vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, united at an unknown
period, by act of council, to the vicarage of Ballynoe,
and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory
is impropriate in the corporation of Waterford. The
tithes amount to £1070. 12. 9., which is equally divided
between the impropriators and the vicar, and the tithes
of the benefice to £840. 7. 4½. The glebe comprises
three acres. The church was rebuilt by a loan of £300
from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1813. In the
R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district,
which includes the parishes of Knockmoume, Ballynoe,
and Mogealy; and has chapels at Conna, Ballynoe, and
Lisnabrint. Here is a private school, in which about
70 children are educated.