TEMPLEMARTIN, or ST-MARTIN, a parish, in the
barony of GOWRAN, county of KILKENNY, and province
of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (E.) from Kilkenny, on the road
to Dublin; containing 17 inhabitants, and comprising
747 statute acres. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the
diocese of Ossory, entirely appropriate to the vicars
choral of the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny; the
tithes amount to £77.6.8. In the R. C. divisions it
forms part of the union or district of St. Canice.