DROMINEER, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-ORMOND,
county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
5 miles (N. W.) from Nenagh, containing 561 inhabitants.
This parish, which is bounded on the east
by Lough Derg, comprises I672 statute acres of arable
and pasture land. The principal seats are Annabeg,
the residence of J. R. Minnitt, Esq.; Shannon Vale, of
J. Odell, Esq.; and Hazle Point, of Lieut. P. Bayly, R. N.
It is a rectory, in. the diocese of Killaloe, and one of
the parishes that constitute the union of Ballynaclough:
the tithes amount to £110. In the R. C. divisions it
forms part of the union or district of Monsea. A school,
endowed by the Countess of Farnham with £30 per ann.,
and an acre and a half of land, affords instruction to
about 40 children; and about 80 more are taught in a
private school. One of the principal stations of the
Inland Navigation Company on the Shannon has been
established near the castle of Dromineer, which is much
dilapidated. Here is a Danish fort, occupying more
than two acres, in the ditch surrounding which brass
battle-axes, coins, large human bones, &c, have been
discovered.