DUNMORE, a parish, in the county of Kilkenny, and
province of LEINSTER, 31/2miles (N.)
from Kilkenny, on the road to Burrow; containing 875
inhabitants. It comprises 2264 statute acres, and has
a constabulary police station. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Oggory, united with the vicarages of
Muckalee and Kilmodum, and in the patronage of the
Crown; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of
Ormonde. The tithes amount, to £175. 3,, of which
£85. 3. is payable to the impropriator, and £90 to the
viear; the tithes of the union are £210. The glebehouse
wa.s erected in 1816, by aid of a gift of £350 and
a loan of £450 from the late Board of First Fruits: the
glebe comprises 22 acres, The church is a plain building,
recently repaired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
at an expense of £114. In the R.C. divisions
the parish forms part of the union or district of
Muckalce.