CAHIRULTAN, a parish, in the barony of IMOKILLY,
county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
contiguous to the town and within the demesne of
Castlemartyr. This parish, at a very early period,
belonged to the Knights Templars, and subsequently
to the Knights Hospitallers; it afterwards merged into
the parish of Ballyoughtera, and both appear to have
formed the ancient parish of Ballymartyr. It is a
rectory, in the diocese of Cloyne, united by an act of
the 9th of Anne, cap. 12, with Ballymartyr and Mogeely
or Imogeely, under the name of Castlemartyr, and constituting
the corps of the prebend of Cahirultan in the
cathedral church of St. Colman, Cloyne, in the patronage
of the Bishop; the tithes for the whole amount to
£435. 12. 7½. The ruins of the old church are in the
park of Castlemartyr. The glebe-house and glebe are
in the parish of Imogeely; the glebe of the union comprises
22a. 3r. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of
the union of Imogeely, or Castlemartyr.