Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRANGE

GRANGE, a tithe-free district, in the barony of SHILLELOGHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S. W.) from Kilkenny, on the road to Callan; the population is returned with the parish of Inchiolaghan. Grange House is the property of Major Shearman. There is a national school at Coppenna, in which are about 150 children.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tithe-free district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Shillelogher IrlBarony       Kilkenny IrlC
Place: Grange

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