ENNISNAG, a parish, in the barony of SHILLELOGHER,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 5½ miles
(S.) from Kilkenny, on the King's river,
and on the road from Kilkenny to Waterford; contain
ing 550 inhabitants. It comprises 1200 statute acres,
of which 10 are woodland, 950 arable, 200 pasture, and
about 40 waste. There are two flour-mills. The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, and
the corps of the treasurership of the cathedral of St.
Canice, Kilkenny, in the patronage of the Bishop: the
tithes amount to £169. The glebe-house was built by
aid of a gift of £400 and a loan of £400 from the late
Board of First Fruits, in 1821; the glebe comprises IS
acres. The church, a neat modern structure, was erected
by aid of a gift of £900 from the same Board, in 1815, and
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted
£124 for its repair. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Danesfort.