RERYMORE, or REARY, a parish, in the barony
of TINNEHINCH, QUEEN'S county, and province of
LEINSTER, 6 miles (N. W.) from Mountmellick, on the
road to Parsonstown; containing 2729 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the river Barrow, which is
here little more than a mountain stream: the land is
generally of good quality and in a profitable state of
cultivation; it is chiefly under tillage, and the system
of agriculture is improved. The principal seats are
Reary Vale, the residence of R. Meredith, Esq., and
Rerymore, of J. Meredith, Esq., in the grounds of which
are the ruins of the ancient church, with an extensive
burial-place, which is still in use. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Kildare, forming part of the union
of Oregan, or Rosenallis; the rectory is impropriate in
Gen. Dunne. The tithes amount to £220. 2. 5½., of
which £146. 14. 11½. is payable to the impropriator, and
£73. 7. 6. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions the parish
is partly in the union of Clonaslee, and partly in
that of Rosenallis. About 110 children are taught in
two public schools; and there is a private school, in
which are about 20 children. Near the ruins of the
church is a well dedicated to St. Finian, which is still
held in great veneration by the peasantry and greatly
resorted to on the festival of that saint; it consists of
three or four cavities in the solid rock, which are always
full of clear water.