MILLENAGH, or MELINA, a parish, in the barony
of BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, and province
of LEINSTER, 7 miles (E.) from Enniscorthy, and on
the coast road from Wexford to Dublin; containing,
with the town of Oulart (which is separately described),
1201 inhabitants. During the disturbances of 1798
this place was the scene of a severe action between a
party of the North Cork militia and the insurgents, who
had encamped on Oulart Hill. The parish comprises
3983½ statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act,
and chiefly in tillage. The principal seat is Island, the
residence of Wm. Bolton, Esq. It is an impropriate
curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, annexed, under an act of
the 4th of Geo. IV., to that of Kilmuckridge: the
rectory is impropriate in Capt. Villars Hatton, R. N.,
who allows £6 per ann. and a glebe of 28 acres for the
performance of the clerical duties. The tithes amount
to £212. 9. 11. In the R. C. divisions the greater part
of the parish is within the union or district of Oulart,
where the chapel is situated, and the remainder is in the
district of Blackwater. About 100 children are educated
in three private schools.