SHANBOUGH, a parish, in the barony of IDA,
county of KILKENNY, and province of MUNSTER, 3½
miles (W.) from New Ross; containing 429 inhabitants,
and comprising 1709 statute acres. It is a vicarage, in
the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of
Rossbercon: the rectory is impropriate in the corporation
of Waterford. The tithes amount to £82. 19., of
which two-thirds are payable to the corporation, and
the remainder to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions also
it is part of the union or district of Rossbercon.