GRANGE, or GRANGEMONK, also called
MONKSGRANGE, a parish, in the barony of Ballyadams,
Queen's county, and province of Leinster,
4 miles (N.) from Carlow, on the river Barrow; containing
240 inhabitants. This parish comprises 841
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued
at £490 per annum. It is a vicarage, in the diocese
of Leighlin, and in the gift of G. Hartpole, Esq.,
in whom the rectory is impropriate. The tithes amount
to £55. 7. 8¼., of which £36. 18. 5½. is payable to the
impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. There
is neither church, glebe-house, nor glebe. In the R. C.
divisions it forms part of the union or district of Mayo,
or Aries and Ballylinan. There is an old churchyard,
which is the burial-place of the Hartpoie family, also
the ruins of a castle.