IRSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of TUNSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (E.) from Coltishall, containing 152 inhabitants. The living is a discharged, rectory, with the vicarage of Barton-Turf, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.