PLEBESTOWN, a reputed parish, locally situated
in the parish of ABBEY-JERPOINT, barony of KNOCKTOPHER,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER;
containing 237 inhabitants, and comprising 1432
statute acres. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory,
impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde, to whom the
tithes, amounting to £43. 3. 10., are entirely payable:
for the performance of ecclesiastical duties it forms part
of the union of Burnchurch.