BALLYGARTH, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
4 miles (N. W.) from Balbriggan; containing 96 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the Nanny water,
on the eastern coast, and is skirted on the west by
the mail coach road from Dublin, by Balbriggan, to
Drogheda. It compriscs 810 statute acres, of which
758 are applotted under the tithe act: the lands are
principally under grass, and the parish is remarkably
well planted; the hedge-rows abound with thriving
trees, and the scenery is generally pleasing. Ballygarth
Castle, the seat of Lieut.-Col. T. Pepper, is picturesquely
situated on the banks of the Nanny water 5 the demesne,
which is well wooded, comprises 486 statute acres, and
contains the ruins of the ancient parish church. Corballis
House, the seat of J. Smith Taylor, Esq., is
pleasantly situated in a demesne of 372 statute acres of
fertile land. At the mouth of the Nanny water is a
coast-guard station, which is one of the nine that constitute
the district of Swords. The living is a rectory,
in the diocese of Meath, and in the patronage of the
Crown; the tithes amount to £62. There is neither
church nor glebe-house 5 near the ruins of the old
church are two acres of glebe, and there are other detached
portions, amounting in the whole to four acres.
In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Stamullen.