INCH, or INCHYANLY, also called INCHYFOGARTY,
a parish, in the barony of ELIOGARTY, county
of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 3½ miles (S.
E.) from Burris-o-leagh, on the road from Nenagh
to Cashel; containing 1928 inhabitants. It comprises
4432 statute acres, exclusively of bog and waste, and
is mostly under tillage. The principal seats are Inch
House, that of G. Ryan, Esq., and Dovea Lodge, of J.
Trant, Esq., both handsome residences situated in fine
demesnes. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, forming
part of the union of Clogher; the rectory is impropriate
in the Marquess of Ormonde, in trust for the
Ormonde poor-house at Kilkenny: the tithes amount to
£300 of which £140 is payable to the impropriator, and
the remainder to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it
is part of the union or district of Drom and Inch, and
contains a neat chapel, built in 1806. About 250 children
are educated in three private schools. There arc
some remains of the old church.