FANLOBBUS, a parish, in the Western Division of
the barony of East-Carbery, county of Cork, and
province of Munster, on the river Bandon, and on the
road from Cork to Bantry; containing, with the post-town
of Dunmanway (which is described under its own
head), 11,405 inhabitants. It comprises 32,743 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe. act, and valued at
£12,494 per annum; about 370 acres are woodland,
16,100 good arable and pasture, mid the remainder
mountain and bog, of which a great part is reclaimable.
Much of the land wan brought, into eult.ivttt.ion for flax
during the prosperity of the. linen manufacture, for
which the town of Dunmanway was one of the principal
marts in this part of the country; but at present wheat
is the principal produce and is raised in large quantities
for the supply of the boulting-mills in the neighbourhood.
The system of agriculture i.s still capable of
improvement; the old heavy wooden plough is in general
use. There is a large proportion of bog, and at
Dareens are some remains of an extensive forest of
oak. At Mohany are some small slate, quarries, and at
Cowigscullighy is found calcareous schist. The
principal seats are the Manor House, a handsome building,
erected by the late II. Cox, Esq., and now the
residence of his family; Maneh House, the seat of D.
Conner, Esq., an elegant villa four miles from the town,
situated on a terrace, and.surrounded with a highly cultivated
demesne; Woodbrook,of II. Gillman, Esq.; Kilronan,
of N. B. Jagoe, Esq.; and Laurel Mount, of H.Town
send, Esq. There are fairs at, Dunmanway, and a fair
is annually held at Ballybuie on the 5th of August. The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, and in the
patronage of the Bishop; the rectory i.s partly appropriate
to the vicars choral and partly constitutes the
corps of the prebend of Dromdaleague in the cathedral
of St. Finbarr, Cork. The tithes amount to £923. I. 4½,
which is equally divided between the appropriators and
the viear. There is no glebe -house; the glebe comprises
‘23 acres. The church, situated in the town of
Dunmanway, was rebuilt, in l821, by aid of a loan of
£1200 from the late Board of First. Fruits, and has
recently been repaired by a grant of £210 from the
Ecclesiast.ieal Commissioners. In the old burial ground,
about, a mile and a half from the town, are:;ome remains
of the former church, consisting only of a circular headed
window. In the R. C. divisions the parish is united to
part of Ballymoney, forming the union of Dunmanway,
in which are three chapels, two being in this parish,
one at Dunmanway, and the other at Togher. Then
is a place of worship at. Dunmanway for Wesleyan Methodists.
About 500 children are taught in eight public
schools, of which one in aided by the vicar, one supported
by D. Connor, Esq., one by W, L. Shuldham, Esq.,
and two under the. National Board; and there are 13
private schools, in which are, about 180 children, and
two Sunday schools. About three miles to the north of
the town is Togher Castle, a lofty tower, said to have
been built by Randal M'Carty, who also built the castle
of Ballinaeorrigy, at the same distance to the south-east
in the adjoining parish of Ballymoney. In Owen Mountain,
in this parish, the rivers Bandon,??en.and Moyalla,
have their sources.