PETER'S-ST, a parish, in the barony of FORTH,
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, immediately
adjoining the town of Wexford; containing,
with the ecclesiastical parishes of Kerlogue and Maudlintown,
1445 inhabitants, of which number, 697 are
within the town. The parish, which, as applotted under
the tithe act, comprises 1246 statute acres, extends in a
south-western direction from Wexford towards the
mountain of Forth: the soil is good and the system of
agriculture much improved. The principal seats are Great
Clonard, that of W.H. Kellett, Esq.; and Little Clonard,
of Capt. Richards, both embracing fine views of Wexford
Harbour: Roseville, the property of Major Wilson,
and Newbay, of the Hatton family, are also within, the
parish; and that part of the town within its limits contains
the Franciscan convent, nunnery, R. C. chapel,
Lancasterian school, fever hospital, and the distillery,
which are respectively noticed under the head of Wexford.
The ecclesiastical parishes of Kerlogue and Maudlintown
have for all civil purposes long since merged into
St. Peter's. It is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese
of Ferns, forming part of the union of Wexford;
the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth.
The tithes amount to £91. 4., of which £10. 8. 4, is payable
to the impropriator and the remainder to the curate.
There are no remains of the church. In the R. C. divisions
also it forms part of the union or district of Wexford.
In the demesne of Great Clonard are the ruins
of a castle or tower, near which Cromwell is said to have
had an encampment: various coins of his period have
been found on the spot.