MARSHALSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of
CONDONS-AND-CLONGIBBONS, county of CORK, and province
of MUNSTER, 2½ miles (W. by S.) from Mitchelstown,
on the road to Kildorrery; containing 2566 inhabitants.
The parish comprises 6760 statute acres,
as rated for the county cess, and valued at £4391 per
ann.; it includes a large tract of bog. Limestone
abounds and is burnt for manure, and the state of agriculture
is slowly improving. The gentlemen's
seats are Killee Castle, the residenceof - Montgomery,
Esq.;
and Castle Eugene, of E. O'Neill, Esq., M.D. Part of
the Earl of Kingston's extensive demesne of Mitchelstown
is also within its limits. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Cloyne, and in the patronage of the
Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in John Nason, Esq.
The tithes amount to £330 per ann., payable in equal
portions to the impropriator and the vicar: there is a
glebe of about 3 acres. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Mitchelstown, and
has a chapel at Marshalstown. About 100 children are
educated during the summer in two private schools.
The ruins still remain of what are called "James's
churches."