GILBERTSTOWN, or BENDENSTOWN, a parish, in
the barony of FORTH, county of CARLOW, and
province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S. w.) from Tullow, on the
road to Leighlin; coittnining 567 inhbitants. Building
stone is found, and there is some bog. Prior to 1830
the parish formed part of the union of Aghade. The
living in a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the
patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £ 250.0.8.
In the R. C, divisions it is the hend of a uniion or district,
also called Ballon andi Ratue comprising; the parishes
of Gilbertstown, Ballon, Kellistown, Templepetre.
Aghnde, and parts of Fennagh and Urglin, in which
union are two chapels situuted at Ballon and Ratoe.
About 180 children ftre ectueutetl in a nationall school.