WESTPALSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of
BALROTHERY, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER,
12 miles (N.) from Dublin; containing 280 inhabitants.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin,
forming part of the union and corps of the prebend of
Clonmethan in the cathedral of Christ-Church, Dublin;
the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of
that cathedral. The tithes amount to £150, of which
two-thirds are payable to the vicars choral, and the remainder
to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is in
the union or district of Damastown. The ruins of the
church still exist.