DONANEY

In 1868, the parish of Donaney contained the following places:

"DONANEY, (or Doneny), a parish, partly in the barony of UPPER-PHILIPSTOWN, KING'S county, but chiefly in that of WEST-OPHALY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S. W. by S.) from Kildare, on the road to Athy: containing 676 inhabitants.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, and is part of the union of Lackagh; the rectory is appropriate to the bishop. The tithes amount to £130. 18., of which £87.5. is payable to the bishop, and £43. 12. 8. to the vicar.

There are three acres of glebe. In the R. C divisions it forms part of the union or district of Monasterevan.

About 70 boys and 30 girls are educated in a private school. There are some remains of an ancient church: also the ruins of a castle, and a large mansion-house now gone to decay, which was once occupied by the family of Browne."

"DUNEANY, a parish in the barony of West Offaly, in the county of Kildare, province of Leinster, Ireland, 4 miles W. of Kildare, its post town. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Kildare, value with Lackagh, £265, in the patronage of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic arrangement the parish is united to Monasterevan. Here is a day school. Ruins of a castle and some traces of a church are seen here."

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