TYFERNAN, or TYFARNAM, a parish, in the
barony of CORKAREE, county of WESTMEATH, and province
of LEINSTER, 5¼ miles (N.) from Mullingar, on
the road from Multifarnham to Castlepollard; containing
310 inhabitants. This parish is situated between
Loughs Dereveragh and Owhel, and contains 1844¾-
statute acres of arable and pasture land. It is an impropriate
cure, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of
the union of the perpetual cure of Leney; the rectory
is impropriate in Sir John B. Piers, Bart. The tithes
amount to £35, payable to the impropriator. The
church has long been in ruins. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners
have recommended that this small parish
should be annexed to the adjoining parish of Portshangan.
In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or
district of Rathconnell, or Turin. There are two private
schools, in which 70 children are taught.