WARD-THE, a chapelry, in the parish of FINGLAS,
barony of CASTLEKNOCK, county of DUBLIN, and
province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (N.) from Dublin, on
the mail road to Ashbourne; containing 251 inhabitants.
Here is a station of the constabulary police,
and petty sessions are held on alternate. Mondays; there
are quarries of good stone. It is a chapelry, in the
diocese of Dublin, forming part of the union of Finglas
and corps of the chancellorship of St. Patrick's cathedral,
Dublin: the tithes are included with those of
Finglas. In the R. C. divisions also it is part of the
district of Finglas. The church is in ruins.