RATHDRUMMIN, a parish, in the barony of FERRARD,
county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER,
2 miles (S. E.) from Dunleer, on the road from Drogheda
to Dundalk; containing 640 inhabitants. It comprises,
according to the Ordnance survey, 1211a. 0r. 27p.:
the land is good and almost entirely in tillage, and the
state of agriculture is much improved. The living is a
rectory, in the diocese of Armagh, united by act of
council, in 1810, to the rectory of Carrickbaggot and
vicarage of Port, and in the patronage of the Crown.
The tithes amount to £82. 6. 3½.; and the gross value
of the benefice, including the glebes, comprising 13
acres, and valued at £25 per ann., is £310. 4. 3. The
glebe-house was erected in 1810, by aid of a gift of
£369, and a loan of the same amount from the late
Board of First Fruits. The church is a neat structure,
rebuilt in 1814 at an expense of £461, being a loan
from the same Board. In the R. C. divisions the parish
is the head of a union or district, comprising also the
parishes of Clogher, Mayne, and Parsons town, and con-
taining the chapels of Walshstown, in the parish of
Rathdrummin, and Hacketscross in Clogher. Near the
church is a large rath attributed to the Danes, consisting
of an elevated area, 130 yards in circumference.