KILBRIDE, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD,
county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER,
4½ miles (S. by W.) from Waterford, on the bay of
Tramore; containing 483 inhabitants. It is a rectory,
in the diocese of Waterford, entirely appropriate to the
economy estate of the Cathedral, and forms, with the
rectory of Island Ikane, the impropriate cure of Kilbride,
which is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of
Waterford; the tithes amount to £74. 17. 3., and there
is a glebe of three acres. In the R. C. divisions it forms
part of the union or district of Dunhill. Here are the
ruins of the old castle of Cullen.