KILBRIDE, a parish, in the barony of IDA, county
of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 5½ miles (W.
by S.) from New Ross; containing 496 inhabitants, and
2665 statute acres. It is a vicarage, episcopally united, in
1779, to that of Kilcoan; the rectory is irapropriate in
the Rev. John Digby. The tithes amount to £90,
which is equally divided between the vicar and the
impropriator. In the R. C. divisions it forms part
of the union or district of Slieuruagh.