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right to the burials in the chapel of St. James's, Palmerstown near
Greenock, which the canons of St. Patrick's claimed as an appendage of the prebend of Clonmethan, and the Prior of Lanthony as apppertaining to the church of Garristown. Both matters were submitted to the Metropolitan, who determined in the former case that the burials of the chapel of Grallagh should belong to the mother church of Hollywood, but that the vicar should pay four shillings per annum to the Prebendary of Clonmethan. In the latter he decided that the chapel of
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for that parish, the following lands, viz. the five-acre park with garden and cabin adjoining thereto ; the two-acre park, and four acres and a half adjoining to the five-acre park, and the rest of Begge's land, being eight acres and a half, all lying near the church of
Clonmethan, for which the
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have granted £175 4s. 11d. It contains no monuments, nor are there any in the surrounding graveyard. Near it is the glebe house, with 55a. of glebe attached to it. In the adjacent
Oldtown is a plain Roman Catholic chapel, in the vestry of which a poor school is kept, which is attended by about forty
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bequeathed the silver box, in which the freedom of the city of Dublin had been presented to him, and in which, says the testator, "I desire the said John to keep the tobacco he usually cheweth called pig-tail." The dean also nominated this Mr. Grattan one of his executors. In the same year Doctor
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near
Gloucester, in reference to the prebend of Clonmethan. The first concerned the right of burial at Grallagh, which the former claimed as belonging to said prebend, and the latter as appertaining to the church of Hollywood, of which they were rectors. The second difference was about a similar
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The ecclesiastical report of 1807 notices only the last-mentioned glebe. There was at that time no glebe house, but the Board of First Fruits has since granted £1350 for the erection of one and in 1808 further granted £500 for enlarging the church; but the parish resisted payment of
223:, in ten townlands; the half of this tract belongs to the see of Dublin. The population of the whole was returned in 1821 as 440, and in 1831 as 677, while a later report states that there are not ten Protestants in this census. Rent here varies from £1 5s. to £2 per acre.
203:. Its rectory and vicarage were united in 1675 with the vicarages of Palmerstown, Greenock, Westpalstown, Ballymadun, and Ballyboghill, but Greenock has been latterly severed from the union. The church here is a small, unadorned structure, for the repairs of which the
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was set up to preserve the church and burial grounds. The chapel of
Fieldstown (Glynsurd), which was dedicated to St. Catharine with its small graveyard, was subordinate to Clonmethan, it was in ruins by the 17th century. It was associated with
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and eight acres of land, value 8s; the tithes of the hamlets of
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283:, and 111 acres of land in Lusk, 125 acres of land in Clonmethan, &c., obtained a grant of the same for ever, from the crown, reserving services to the king and his successors, on vacancies of the see occurring.
348:. The queen's letter of this year mentions, that he "is well commended to her for his good name and honest living, and the rather because he was well able to preach in the Irish tongue."
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Ballymadun as 19a. 2r. 5p.
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Clonmethan, Balmadun, Falmerstown, Grenogue, Westpalstown, and Ballyboghill, were united by
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Richmond was then curate here. In 1667 the Archbishop of Dublin had a grant of fifty acres
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near Greenock, with its burials, should belong to the church of Garristown, but that the prior and convent of Lanthony should pay to the vicar of that chapel four
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Clonmethan. The Memorial of the Reverend Thos Radcliffe to build a Glebe House. 6th June 1814], The Process of Building a Glebe, RCB Library.
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571:Clonmethan Union and Hollywood Union
66:. It is bordered by the parishes of
898:The history of the county of Dublin
579:1900-1902 - Thomas Ernest Rudd B.A.
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923:Saint Mary's Church in Clonmethan
824:"Mapviewer centred on Clonmethan"
542:1841 Robert Quaile Shannon, B.A.
325:at Clonmethan and repair of the
556:Clonmethan Union and Garristown
504:1803 Storer Charles Littlehales
183:History of the county of Dublin
170:abolished the Manor of Swords.
784:Placenames Database of Ireland
144:St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
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742:"Dublin; Divisions and towns"
605:Modern Prebends of Clonmethan
587:St. Mary's Church, Clonmethan
370:, was buried in this church.
243:prior and canons of Lanthony
234:. To it was subservient the
205:Ecclesiastical Commissioners
148:Dublin Castle administration
551:1870 Robert W. Whelan, M.A.
447:1561 Walter Hill, with Lusk
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513:1835 Montague Leaver Short
492:1789 Robert Baylis Dealtry
935:The Friends of Clonmethan
834:. 1836–42. Archived from
594:The Friends of Clonmethan
534:Clonmethan and Fieldstown
211:The parish comprises 3027
894:"Balrothery: Clonmethan"
828:First-edition 6-inch map
786:– Clonmethancivil parish
545:1846 R. M. Kennedy, M.A.
501:1801 John Beresford Hill
256:the feast of St. Michael
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797:"Clonmethan (townland)"
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495:1795 Lionel Smythe 5th
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863:(1837). "Clonmethan".
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948:Irelands Holy Wells.
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651:53°31′37″N
641:References
561:Incumbents
387:Dean Swift
353:visitation
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32:Clonmelkin
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327:chancel
319:demesne
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138:. The
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323:curate
299:Oxford
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275:being
236:chapel
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112:Swords
60:Fingal
52:barony
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