FAMAGH-CHURCH, a parish, in the barony of
Gowran, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster,
l mile (S. S.E. ) from Thomastown, on the road to
Inniatiogue; containing 128 inhabitants, and comprising
623 statute acres. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of
Ossory, forming part of the union of Thoinu.st.own; the
rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde, to
whom the tithes, amounting to £26, are wholly payable.
In the R. C, divisions also it is part of the union or district
of Thomastown. Brownsbarn i.s the residence of
John Nixon, Esq.