POLEROAN, a parish, in the barony of IVERK,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 6
miles (N. W.) from Waterford, on the road to Carrickon-
Suir, and on the north-eastern bank of the river
Suir; containing 1245 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, united by act of
council, in 1680, to the vicarages of Portnescully and
Illud, together constituting the union of Poleroan, in the
gift of the Corporation of Waterford, in whom the rectory
is impropriate. The tithes amount to £300, of
which one-half is payable to the impropriators, and
the other to the vicar: the entire tithes of the benefice
amount to £270. There is a glebe-house with a glebe
of 4¼ acres. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms
part of the union or district of Moncoin. About 60
children are educated in a private school.