DRUNG, a parish, in the barony of TULLAGHGARVEY,
county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles'
(E. N. E.) from Cavan, on the road from that place
to Cootehill; containing 6015 inhabitants. According
to the Ordnance survey it comprises 11,475 statute
acres, including 78 of water. Here are several quarries
of good building stone, and it is supposed that various
minerals exist, but no mines have been worked. The
principal seats are Rakenny, the residence of T. S. Clements,
Esq., and Fort Lodge, of J. Smith, Esq. The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, united
from time immemorial to that of Laragh, and in the
patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in
the Marquess of Westmeath. The tithes amount to
£475. 15. ll½., of which £202. 4. 7½. is payable to the
impropriator, and £273. 11. 4½. to the vicar; the
entire tithes of the benefice amount to £610. 18. 6½.
There is a glebe-house, with several glebes, comprising
695 acres, and valued at £606. 16. 3. per annum. The
church is a handsome building, lately repaired by a
grant of £130 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Established
Church, and contains two chapels, one at Dunnannah
and the other at Bannow. About 350 children
are educated in three public, and 320 in seven private
schools, besides those who are taught in three Sunday
schools. There are several raths, one of which is called
Fort William, part of King William's army having occupied
it after encamping near Ballyhaise on a spot since
called Camp Hill. See BALLINECARGY.