Garristown

GARRISTOWN, a parish, in the barony of BALROTHERY, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N.W.) from Ashbourne; containing 2081 in habitants, of-which number, 741 are in the village of Garristown, and 218 in that of Baldwinstown. It is a constabulary police station, and has a dispensary. There is a windmill on a hill near the village, from which is an extensive prospect, commanding a view over four teen counties. Good building stone and turf are ob tained in the parish; and fairs are held on May 5th, Aug. 15th, and Nov. 1st.

The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, and in the gift of Lord Trimleston, in whom the rectory is impropriato: the vicarial tithes were valued at £50, and there is a glebe of 25 acres. The church is a plain building: the glebe-house, which was built in 1791, is in ruins. In the R. C.divisions the parish is united to Ballymadun; there is a chapel in each parish; that of Garristown was erected in 1828, and galleries were added to the chapel of Bullymadun in 1833. There is a national school, in which about 100 boys are instructed, and there arc also two private schools.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

"BALDWINSTOWN, a village in the barony of West Bahrothery, in the county of Dublin, province of Leinster, Ireland, 1 mile from Garristown."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868  by Colin Hinson ©2018]