TICKILLEN, a parish in the barony of SHELMALIER,
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER,
3½ miles (N. W.) from Wexford, near the mail road to
Enniscorthy; containing 1226 inhabitants. It is principally
situated on the north-eastern bank of the Slaney,
but there is a small detached portion on the northern
extremity of the estuary of that river. The principal
portion is skirted by the new mail road to Enniscorthy
and Dublin, and is connected with the south-western
bank of the river by a handsome bridge of American
oak, which, together with the ancient castle of Ferry-
Carrigg, romantically situated on a rocky eminence on
the Tickillen side of the river, is noticed in the article
on the parish of Carrigg. The parish of Tickillen comprises
2640 statute acres, of which the detached portion
contains 748: within the limits of the latter is part of
the village of Castlebridge. The land is mostly in tillage,
the soil in general fertile, and the state of agriculture
has been of late years much improved. The seats
are Percy Lodge, the property of Percy Evans Freke,
Esq., pleasantly situated near the banks of the river;
Killown, the residence of - Woodcock, Esq., built in
the cottage style; Newtown Lodge, the handsome villa
of J. E. Redmond, Esq.; and Moat Park, of N. Goodall,
Esq. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, separated
by act of council in 1829 from the union of Ardcolme
(with the exception of the small detached portion, which
is still attached to that union), and with the adjoining
parish of Kilpatrick, formed into a distinct benefice;
the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth.
The tithes of the larger portion amount to £123. 7. 9.,
of which £63. 7. 9 is payable to the impropriator, and
the remainder to the vicar; and those of the smaller portion
to £58. 12.10., of which £28. 13. 6. is payable to the
impropriator, and the remainder to the incumbent of Ardcolme
union. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms
part of the union or district of Crossabeg. Within the
demesne of Percy Lodge is a glebe, comprising 3 acres;
also the ruins of the ancient church, with a cemetery
attached. At the north-western extremity of the parish
are the remains of Deeps Castle, said to have been granted
by Cromwell to one of his standard-bearers named Randle,
whose family subsequently entertained Jas. II. on his
way to Waterford, when he was retiring to France after
the battle of the Boyne.