Nicholas-Without, with a pop. of 244, from the bar- tural beauty, and displays an absolute profusion of ony of Uppercross to the city of Dublin; a portion sylvan decoration. The principal summits, together of the parish of St. Peter, with a pop. of 2,934, from with their respective altitudes above sea-level, are a the barony of Uppercross to the city of Dublin; the height 14 mile south of Clonmel, 1,081 feet; a height whole of the parish of Dalkey, with a pop. of 1,449, 23 miles south-south-east of Clonmel, 1,404 feet; a from the barony of Uppercross to that of Rathdown; height 24 miles south by east of Cloumel, 1,710 feet; and the townlands of Rathmichael and Shankhill, in a height 4 miles south-east of Clonmel, 1,751 feet; the parish of Rathmichael, with a pop. of 778, from a height 44 miles south-east of Clonmel, 2, 181 feet; the barony of Uppercross to that of Rathdown. Pop. a height 3 miles east by south of Clonmel, 1,25 of the old or quondam barony of Uppercross, in 1831, feet; a height 3 miles east-south-east of Clonmel, 23,146. Houses 3,492. Families employed chiefly 875 feet; a height 4 miles east-south-east of Clos in agriculture, 1,765; in manufactures and trade, mel, 1,071 feet; Knockanaffrin, 54 miles south-east 874; in other pursuits, 1,372. This barony-the of Clonmel, 2,478 feet; a height nearly 1 mile southold one, or rather the scattered territory which con- south-east of Knockanaffrin, 2,028 feet; a height stituted it is distributed among the Poor-law unions 4 miles west-south-west of Mothel, 2,504 feet; a of Baltinglass, Celbridge, South Dublin, Naas, and height 34 miles south-west of Mothel, 908 feet; a Rathdrum. The total number of tenements valued height 2 miles south of Carrick-on-Suir, 423 feet; a is 4,349; and of these, 1,728 are valued under £5, | height 5 miles south of Carrick-on-Suir, 614 feet; -627, under £10,-354, under £15,-203, under a height 3 miles west by south of Carrick-on-Suir, £20,-248, under £25, -158, under £30,-377, 649 feet; a height 43 miles west of Carrick-on-Suir, under £40,-185, under £50,-and 469, at and 861 feet; a height 44 miles south-west of Carrick-onabove £50.-The new or present barony of Upper- Suir, 818 feet; and a height 23 miles south-east of cross contains part of the parishes of Clondalkin, Carrick-on-Suir, 788 feet. The Act 6 and 7 William Donnybrook, Esker, Rathfarnham, St. Catherine's, IV., cap. 84, transferred the whole of the parishes St. James', St. Nicholas - Without, and St. Pe- of Monksland and Kilbarrymeaden, the townland of ter's; and the whole of the parishes of Ballyfer- Lissahane in the parish of Newcastle, the townlands mot, Cruagh, Crumlin, Drimnagh, Palmerstown, of Killelton and Brenan in the parish of Stradbally, and Tullaght. The towns and chief villages are the townlands of Kilmacthomas, Kilmoylan, Serahan, Clondalkin, Crumlin, Palmerstown, Kilmainham, Shanakill, and Whitestown, in the parish of RosGolden - Bridge, West Baggotrath, Cullenswood, mere, the townlands of Aughanaglogh, Ballinahilla, Milltown, Portobello, North Ranelagh, South Ran- East Ballydowane, West Ballydowane, Ballylaneen, elagh, East Rathmines, West Rathmines, South North Ballinabanoge, South Ballinabanoge, BallinRathmines, Greenhills, Tallaght, West Harolds- arrid, Carrowntassona, Carrig-castle, East Cooltub cross, East Haroldscross, part of Haroldscross, part bred, West Cooltubbred, East Currabaha, West Curof Chapel-Izod, and part of Island-Bridge. Pop., in rababa, Fahafeelagh, Graigueshoneen, Lissard, Lis1841, 24,415. Houses 3,755. Families employed nageragh, Seafield, and Templeyorick, in the parish chiefly in agriculture, 2,066; in manufactures and of Ballylaneen, with a pop. of 11,696, from the bartrade, 1,196; in other pursuits, 1,429. Families de- ony of Upperthird to that of Decies-without-Drum. pendent chiefly on property and professions, 472; on-Pop. of the old barony, in 1831, 27,596. Houses the directing of labour. 1,810; on their own manual labour, 2,035; on means not specified, 374. Males at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 5, 169; who could read but not write, 1,669; who could neither read nor write, 3,066. Females at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 5, 134; who could read but not write, 2,569; who could neither read nor write, 3,866.

UPPER FALLS. See BELFAST and FALLS (UPPER).

4.039. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 2,936; in manufactures and trade, 832; in other pursuits, 930. This barony-or the territory which constituted the old barony-is distributed among the poor-law unions of Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Dungarvan, and Waterford. The total number of tene inents valued, exclusive of a small portion of the borough of Clonmel, is 3,114; and of these, 1,816 are valued under £5,-337, under £10,-132, under £15, 116, under £20,-78, under £25,-74, under £30,-129, under £40,-89, under £50,-and 343,

now constituted, contains part of the parishes of Killaloan, Kilmeaden, Kilsheelan, Rosmire, and St. Mary's of Clonmel, and the whole of the parishes of Clonegan, Dysert, Fenagh, Guilcagh, Kilmoleran, Mothel, and Rathgormack. The towns and chief villages are Portlaw, Carrickbeg, Rathgormack, Scronthea, Mothel, and part of Clonmel. Pop., in 1841, 21,970. Houses 3,154. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 2,502; in manufactures and trade, 852; in other pursuits, 311. Families de

UPPER OSSORY. See OsSORY (UPPER). UPPERTHIRD, a barony of the county of Wa-at and above £50.-The barony of Upperthird, as terford, Munster. It is bounded, on the north, by the county of Tipperary; on the north-east, by the county of Kilkenny; on the east, by the barony of Middlethird; on the south, by the barony of Decieswithout-Drum; and on the west, by the barony of Glenahiry. Its length, in the direction of east by south, is 15 miles; its greatest breadth is 74 miles; and its area is 77,089 acres, 17 perches,-of which 418 acres, rood, 13 perches are tideway of the river Suir, and 596 acres, 3 roods, 38 perches are water. The river Suir traces the whole of the boun-pendent chiefly on property and professions, 45; on dary with the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny, Various small lakes lie among the Cummeragh mountains, several of them at a great elevation; and the chief of them, together with their respective superficial altitude above sea-level, are Cummeragh Lough, 1,650 feet, Crotty's Lough, 396 feet,-and Cromshingane Lough, 1,254 feet. A large portion of the great range of the Cummeragh mountains occupies most of the western and the southern districts, and sends down spurs far into the interior; a large proportion of the remainder of the surface is picturesquely diversified with hills of considerable altitude; and the immediate valley of the Suir is replete with na

the directing of labour, 1,171; on their own manual labour, 2,346; on means not specified, 103. Males at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 2,568; who could read but not write, 1,246; who could neither read nor write, 5,558. Females at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 1,040; who could read but not write, 1,318; who could neither read nor write, 7,566.

UPPERWOODS, one of the three cantreds into which the large old barony of Upper Ossory was recently divided, in Queen's county, Leinster. See OSSORY (UPPER). It is bounded, on the north and north east, by the barony of Timmehinch; on the cast,

by the barony of West Maryborough; on the south, by the cantreds or baronies of Clarmallagh and Clandonagh; and, on the west, by King's county. It is strictly identical in territory with the parish of OFFERLANE: which see. Area, 48,926 acres, 2 roods, 14 perches. Pop., in 1841, 10,491. Houses 1,670. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 1,551; in manufactures and trade, 151; in other pursuits, 86. Families dependent chiefly on property and professions, 34; on the directing of labour, 332; on their own manual labour, 1,407 on means not specified, 15. Males at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 1,917; who could read but not write, 881; who could neither read nor write, 1,808. Females at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, 1,169; who could read but not write, 1,382; who could neither read nor write, 2,081.-Upperwoods lies partly within the Poor-law union of Abbeyleix, and partly within that of Mountmellick. The total number of tenements valued is 1,657; and of these, 1,044 are valued under £5,-228, under £10,-104, under £15,-57, under £20,-55, under £25,--28, under £30,-47, under £40,-21, under £50,-and 73, at and above £50.

UREGARE. See OWREGARE.

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Mayo, Connaught. "One of the family of Nangle," says Archdall, "founded a monastery here for Dominican friars, and dedicated it to St. Thomas. This family afterwards took the name of Costello, and became lords of the barony; the followers of St. Dominic seated themselves here in the year 1430, without a license from the Pope; but they obtained one from Eugene IV., who made a grant of the same, by a bull bearing date the 18th March, 1434. Urlare, or, in Irish, Orlare, which signifies an area, is in a retired situation, and was therefore appointed for the general reception of Novices throughout the province of Connaught. We are told, that in ancient times, there was a town here; but at present there is not a vestige of one to be seen, and the ruins of the abbey alone preserve this place from total oblivion. On the dissolution of monasteries, this friary was granted to Lord Dillon."

Kilkenny. See KILKENNY (County of the CITY oF). Rectorial tithe composition, £150 ls. 2d. Proportion of stipend paid to the incumbent of Clomantagh, £25. The church is in ruins. Two Roman Catholic chapels have each an attendance of 1,000; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, are mutually united. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 42, and the Roman Catholics to 2,502; and 3 daily schools-two of which were salaried with jointly £15 a-year from local contributions-had on their books 126 boys and 99 girls. In 1843, a boys' school and a girls' school at the town was salaried with respectively £20 and £19 from the National Board, and had on their books 161 boys and 142 girls.

URLINGFORD, a parish, containing a small town of the same name, on the western border of the barony of Galmoy, and county of Kilkenny, Leinster. Length, south-eastward, 3 miles; breadth, from to 13; area, 3,497 acres, 3 roods, 26 perches. Pop., in 1831, 2,492; in 1841, 2,830. Houses 492. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1831, 1,126; in 1841, 1,088. Houses 196. A large proportion of the surface is URGLIN, or RUTLAND, a parish in the barony boggy and waste land. The highest ground occurs of Carlow, 23 miles east-north-east of the town of 1 mile north-west of the town, and has an altitude Carlow, co. Carlow, Leinster. Length, south by above sea-level of 453 feet. The mail-road from eastward, 33 miles extreme breadth, 13; area, Dublin to Cork, by way of Thurles and Cashel, 3, 149 acres, 1 rood, 13 perches. Pop., in 1831, 970; passes across the interior. The principal country in 1841, 1,004. Houses 158. The surface consists residence is Springview-house.-This parish is a recof good land, possesses a large aggregate of embel-tory, and also part of the perpetual curacy of CLOlishment, and is traversed by the road from Carlow MANTAGH [which see], in the dio. of Ossory. The to Hacketstown. A stream upon the northern boun-rectory is part of the benefice of St. Patrick's of dary separates the parish from co. Kildare, and flows there upon an elevation of 218 feet above sea-level. One height at the church has an altitude above sealevel of 334 feet; one in the south-eastern district has an altitude of 357 feet; and Knockard, in the northern district, has an altitude of 387 feet. The principal residences are Johnstown-house. Rutlandlodge, Rutland-house, Knockard-house, Thornvillehouse, Viewmount, Ballinakill-house, and Sion-cottage; and the principal antiquities are the ruins of Graigue-castle, and the site of another castle. A constabulary station is situated at Palatine, adjacent to Knockard. A portion of the extensive demesne of Burton-ball is within the north-east district.This parish is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin. Tithe composition, £250. The rectories of Ürglin and GRANGEFORTH, and the impropriate curacy of KILLERICK [see these articles], constitute the benefice of Urglin. Length, 7 miles; breadth, 3. Pop, in 1831, 3,164. Gross income, £529 15s.; nett, £499 14s. 6d. Patron, the diocesan. The incumbent is non-resident. A curate receives a salary of £75. The church was built in 1820, by means of a loan of £646 3s. Id. from the late Board of First Fruits. Sittings 110; attendance 80. The Roman Catholic chapel of Urglin is situated at Benekerry, and has an attendance of about 700; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, it is united to the chapel of Grangeforth, which has also an attendance of 700. In 1834, the Protestants of the parish of Urglin amounted to 172, and the Roman Catholics to 898; the Protestants of the union to 276, and the Roman Catholics to 2,997; 3 daily schools in the parish-one of which was salaried with £7 a-year from the Association for Discountenancing Vice had on their books 95 boys and 54 girls; and there was also a daily school in Grangeforth.

URIEL. See LOUTH (COUNTY OF). URLARE, the site of an old abbey, and possibly of an ancient town, in the barony of Costello, co.

URLINGFORD, a small market and post town in the parish of Urlingford, barony of Galmoy, co. Kilkenny, Leinster. It stands on the mail-road from Dublin to Cork, by way of Cashel, a mile from the boundary with Munster, 1 south-southwest of Johnstown, 7 north-east by north of Littleton, 7 west by south of Freshford, 8 north-east by east of Thurles, 9 south-west of Castle-Durrow, 12 west-north-west of Kilkenny, 17 north-east by north of Cashel, and 63 south-west by half-south of Dublin. It consists of one street, and several diverging lanes, and contains a Roman Catholic chapel, two National schools, a dispensary, a bridewell, and a small inn and posting establishment; and adjacent to it are an old castle, a graveyard, and the ruins of the parish-church. The dispensary is within the Kilkenny Poor-law union, and serves for a district containing a pop. of 5,722; and, in 1839, it expended £129 8s., and administered to 2,000 patients. The bridewell is furnished and kept clean; but it is of small capacity, and fit only for the detention of a drunkard or a rioter, till further examination by the magistrates, or previous to committal to the county gaol. During 1843, the cost of maintaining the bridewell amounted to £9 4s. 7d. for salary to the keeper,

and £8 13s. 11d. for subsistence, fuel, and incidents. Fairs are held on July 20, Aug. 15, Sept. 13, Oct. 12, Nov. 14, and Dec. 3 and 22. Courts of quartersessions are held in the town. A practicable point of the Dublin and Kilkenny line of railway, as proposed by the Public Commissioners, occurs 13 statute miles distant, at Branra Gate. Area of the town, 67 acres. Pop., in 1831, 1,366; in 1841, 1,742. Houses 296. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 154; in manufactures and trade, 152; in other pursuits, 83. Families dependent chiefly on property and professions, 15; on the directing of labour, 155; on their own manual labour, 161; on means not specified, 38.

built in 1816, by means of private donations, and of loans from the late Board of First Fruits, the latter amounting to £3,692 6s. 13d. Sittings 700; attendance 375. The Presbyterian meeting-house is attended by 95; the Wesleyan Methodist meeting. house, by 55; and the Primitive Methodist meeting house, by 175. The Roman Catholic chapels at Cavan, Coolboyogue, and Stragolla-the last in the parish of Annageliffe-have an attendence of re-pectively 1,570, 406, and 620; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, they are mutually united. In 1834, the inhabitants of the district, included within the perpetual curacy of Derryheen, consisted of 262 Churchmen, 3 Presbyterians, and 573 Romisa Catholics; the inhabitants of the remainder of the parish of Urney consisted of 1,690 Churchmen, 97 Presbyterians, 6 Protestant dissenters, and 3,74! Roman Catholics; and the inhabitants of the benefice of Urney, exclusive of the Derryheen district, consisted of 2, 183 Churchmen, 101 Presbyterians, 6 Protestant dissenters, and 7,816 Roman Catholics; Derryheen district, had on their books 105 boys and 60 girls; a Sunday school at Farnham was supported by Lord Farnham, and had on its books 53 boys and 53 girls; 14 daily schools in the parish of Ürney, exclusive of the Derryheen district, had on their books 389 boys and 260 girls; and 21 daily schools in the union of Urney had on their books 672 boys and 401 girls. The school at Dredris was salaried with £10 a-year and other advantages from Lord Farnham: that at Innismore was connected with the Kildare Place Society; one at Cavan was a royal Board of Education, and fees of from £8 83. to £3 14s. from the pupils; another at Cavan was a school for girls, supported by fees of from £12 12s. to £35 14s. from the pupils; another was salaried with £50 a-year and other advantages from Lord Farnham; one at Farnham, with £36 18s. Ed. and other advantages from Lord Farnham; one at Coolbrogue, with £14 from the National Board; one in Cavangool, with £20 Irish, from the county; and three in Annagelife were partially supported by endowinent or subscription.

URNEY, a parish partly in the barony of Lower Loughtee, but chiefly in that of Upper Loughtee, co. Cavan, Ulster. The Upper Loughtee section contains the town of CAVAN: which see. The Lower Loughtee lies detached from 14 to 2 miles north of the Upper Loughtee section, and approaches within of a mile of the town of Belturbet. Length of the Upper Loughtee section, north-north-west-2 daily schools at Dredris and Innismore, in the ward, 5 miles; breadth, from 4 to 24; area, 7,493 acres, 2 roods, 2 perches, of which 530 acres, 2 roods, 7 perches are in small lake, and 452 acres, 2 roods, 13 perches are in Lough Oughter. Length of the Lower Loughtee section, west-north-westward, 1 mile; extreme breadth, ; area, 440 acres, 2 roods, 24 perches, of which 72 acres, 3 roods, 33 perches are water. Pop. of the whole, in 1831, 6,050; in 1841, 6,464. Houses 951. Pop. of the Lower Loughtee section, in 1841, 175. Houses 32. Pop. of the rural districts of the Upper Loughtee section, in 1841, 2,540. Houses 397. The surface is exceed-endowed school, supported by £300 a-year from the ingly various in both appearance and quality; and has already been somewhat minutely noticed in our articles upon the town of Cavan, the demesne of Farnham, and Lough Oughter. See CAVAN, FARNHAM, OUGHTER, and KILMORE. Lough Oughter extends along the western boundary of the Upper Loughtee section; the river Erne describes all the south-western boundary of the Lower Loughtee section; the noble demesne of Farnham, with its superb profusion of wood, water, and park scenery, lies immediately east and south-east of Lough Oughter; the island of Iunismuck, in Lough Oughter, lies URNEY, a parish, partly in the barony of Raphoe, wholly within the north-western district of the co. Donegal, but chiefly in the barony of Strabane, Upper Loughtee section; Loughs Swellan, Swan, co. Tyrone, Ulster. The Tyrone section contains Luchin, and Carrowfin, contribute their aggregately the village of CLADY, and a small part of the town good features to that section; and the country re- of STRABANE: see these articles. Length of the sidences of Swellan - cottage, Fort-lodge, and St. Donegal section, northward, 33 miles; extreme Swithin's-cottage, contribute to extend the luxuries breadth, 23; area, 5,204 acres, 3 roods, 36 perches, of the Farnham demesne. The road from Cavan to of which, 32 acres, 2 roods, 6 perches are water. Belturbet, and the mail-road from Dublin to Ennis-Length of the Tyrone section, in the direction of killen, pass through the interior.-This parish is a north by cast, 5 miles; extreme breadth, 3; arca, vicarage, in the dio. of Kilmore. The vicarial tithes 9,284 acres, 1 rood, 33 perches,-of which 99 acres, are compounded for £111 3s. 31d., and the rectorial | 1 rood, 25 perches are water. Pop. of the whole, for £44 12s. 5d.; and the larger portion of the latter, in 1831, according to the Census, 7,190, but accordcompounded for £38 15s. 4d., is appropriated to the ing to the Ecclesiastical Authorities, 7,277 ; in 1841, deanery of Kilmore, while the smaller portion, com- 7,662. Houses 1,263. Pop. of the Donegal section, pounded for £6 7s. 1d., is impropriate in the vicars in 1831, 2,030; in 1841, 2,102. Houses 373. Pop. choral of the cathedrals of Dublin. The vicarages of the rural districts of the Strabane section, in 1831. of Urney and ANNAGELIFFE [see that article], con- 4,289; in 1841, 4,751. Houses 760. The surface stitute the benefice of Urney. Gross income, £599 consists variously of meadow, arable, demesne, paOs. 24d.; nett, £522 18s. 2 d. Patron, the diocesan. ture, and mountainous land; and, in an aggregate The incumbent holds also the adjoining benefice of view, it presents a very diversified appearance, pos Belturbet, in the dio. of Kilmore; the sinecure pre- sesses great beauty, and makes a large contribution centorship of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin; and to the brilliant scenery which envirens the town of the sinecure precentorship of the cathedral of Elphin; Strabane. The Donegal section approaches to within and he is non-resident in Urney. One curate has a a few perches of the town of Castle-Finn; it is partly salary of £90; and another curate has a salary of traversed across its north-east wing, and partly £75. Nine townlands are included in the perpetual bounded on both the north and the east, by the river curacy of DERRYHEEN: which see. Proportion of Finn; and it possesses a charming portion of the salary from Urney to the incumbent of Derryheen, valley of that river, and has in the south an eminence £40. The church is situated in Cavan, and was of the name of Fearn, whose summit rises to the

Daphne-house, Verona-house, Monart-house, Urrin.
fort-house, Kiltrea-house, Woodbrook, Duffry-ball,
Coolycarney-cottage, and Willmount-house.
UŔRISBEG. See ROUNDstone.

USE MOUNTAINS, a small mountainous range on the northern border of the barony of Duhallow, and county of Cork, Munster. It extends about 44 miles in length, approaches within about 1 mile of the town of Newmarket, and flanks the west side of the vale or glen of the rivulet Allua; but, in a large sense, it is only a compartment of the vast congeries of uplands lying around the junction-point of the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, and it is prolonged east-south-eastward by connecting hills to the vicinity of Mallow.

USKE, a parish, 3 miles north-east by north of Ballytore, and on the eastern border of the barony of East Narragh and Rheban and of the county of Kildare, Leinster. Length, westward, 2 miles; exPop., in 1831, 914; in 1841, 1,035. Houses 181. The surface comprises some bog, and consists, in a general view, of middle-rate land. One height in the north has an altitude above sea-level of 489 feet; and one in the west has an altitude of 726 feet. The northern district contains a graveyard and the ruins of a castle. The western wing is traversed by the road from Ballytore to Kilcullen-Bridge. This parish is a rectory, and part of the benefice of DUNLAVEN [which see], in the dio. of Dublin. Tithe composition, £77 ls. 7d.; glebe, £11. In 1831, all the parishioners excepting 2 were Roman Catholics; and, in 1834, a pay daily school had on its books 36 boys and 27 girls.

height of 753 feet above the level of the sea. The Tyrone section is partly bounded, on the west, by the river Finn, and bounded along most of the east and the north by the river Mourne; it boasts the possession of a superb portion of the exquisitely scenic valley of the latter river; it contains the rich and charming peninsula between the Finn and the Mourne down to the immediate vicinity of Lifford bridge, where they unite to constitute the Foyle; and it is embellished with numerous mansions and villas, among others, Urney - park, Melmount, Beechmount, Castletown-house, Glenquinan - hill, and Gallauny-house. The valley of the Finn along the mutual border of the two sections, and across the head of the Donegal section, is popularly designated the vale of Urney, displays a beautiful, fertile, USHNAGH, a hill in the parish of Conry, barony and highly cultivated appearance, and is traversed of Rathconrath, co. Westmeath, Leinster. It is by the road from Strabane to Stranorlar, Castle- situated 33 miles east of the village of Ballymore, Finn, and Glenties. A feature of great interest in and 5 miles west of Lough Ennel; it forms a rethe eastern verge of the parish is the large manufac-markable feature in the midst of a great tract of flat turing establishment of SION-MILLS: which see.- and fertile country; and its summit has an altitude This parish is a rectory, and a separate benefice, in of 602 feet above the level of the sea, and commands the dio. of Derry. Tithe composition, £700; glebe. an extensive panoramic view of the rich plain of £369. Gross income, £1,069; nett, £1,020 10s. Westmeath. At the base of the hill is Charleville10d. Patron, the diocesan. Each of two curates house, the seat of Mr. Kelly. receives a salary of £69 4s. 74d. The church is of unknown date and cost. Sittings 290; attendance, from 250 to 320. The Presbyterian meeting-house which formerly belonged to the Synod of Ulster has an attendance of 230. The Presbyterian meeting-treme breadth, 13; area, 1,763 acres, 8 perches. house which formerly belonged to the Secession Synod has an attendance of from 100 to 150. The Roman Catholic chapels at Donaloope and Ballycoleman have an attendance of respectively 1,000 and from 480 to 500; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, are united to the chapel of Derg. In 1834, the inhabitants consisted of 1,136 Churchmen, 1,670 Presbyterians, and 4,060 Roman Catholics; 2 Sunday schools at Urney, and 3 at Sion, Tully whisker, and Highalt, were usually attended by about 233 scholars; and 3 daily schools at Urney, and 5 at Sion, Tully whisker, Highalt, Clady, and Ballycoleman, had on their books 344 boys and 271 | girls. One of the daily schools at Urney was supported wholly by the rector's family; another at Urney with £15 a-year from the rector; the third at Urney was in connection with the Kildare Place Society; that at Sion was salaried with £5 a-year from the Marquis of Abercorn and £1 from the rector; that at Tully whisker, with £10 Irish from the Marquis of Abercorn; and that at Ballycoleman was held in the Roman Catholic chapel. In 1843, one National school at Highalt was salaried with £12 a-year from the Board, and had on its books 75 boys and 66 girls; another at Highalt, with £12 10s. from the Board, and had 82 boys and 68 girls; and one at Rabstown, with £15, and had 93 boys and 70 girls. URRAN (THE), a rivulet of the western district of the county of Wexford, Leinster. It rises among the south-eastern skirts of Mount-Leinster, receives various early affluents from the Blackstairs, and flows about 11 miles south-eastward, chiefly through the large parish of Templeshambo, and on the boundary between the baronies of Scare walsh and Bantry, to a confluence with the Slaney at a point about 4 or 5 furlongs below Enniscorthy. The middle and the lower portions of the rivulet's valley display considerable beauty. and possess the wood of Killoughrim, the village of Forge, the distillery and flour-mills of Fairfield, and the mansions of Killoughrim-house,

USKEANE, a parish in the barony of Lower Ormond, 2 miles north-east of Borris-o'-kane, co. Tipperary, Munster. Length, north-westward, 4 miles; extreine breadth, 24; area, 7,656 acres, 1 rood, 10 perches, of which 9 acres, 2 roods, 8 perches are water. Pop., in 1831, 1,459; in 1841, 1,875. Houses 332. The surface is a rich and ornate portion of the gorgeous plain of Ormond; and is traversed by the roads from Borris-o'-kane to Birr, from Nenagh to Ferbane, and from Nenagh and Borris-o'kane to Portumna, and impinged upon in the east by the road from Limerick and Nenagh to Birr. The principal residences are Uskeane-house, Sopwellhall, Castle-Sheppard-house, Ballylina-house, Killavalla-house, and Coorevine-house; and the principal antiquities are the ruins of a church and of Drummanagh-castle. This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefice of BALLINGARRY [which see], in the dio. of Killaloe. The vicarial tithes are compounded for £103 17s. 6d., and the rectorial for £162 5s; and the latter are impropriate in Marmion Thompson, Esq. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 72, and the Roman Catholics to 1,463; a National school had on its books 100 boys and 47 girls; and a hedgeschool had 11 boys and 3 girls.

USNAGH. See USHNAGH.

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VALENCIA, VALENTIA, or KILMORE, an insu-| Island. The division of the strait between Innisbeg lar parish in the barony of Iveragh, 34 miles south- and Valentia Island forms the principal entrance to west of Cahirciveen, co. Kerry, Munster. Length, the inner harbour; the landmark for commanding it in the direction of south-west by west, 5 miles; is the church of Valentia, south half east, midway extreme breadth, 2; area, 6,371 acres. Pop., in between Cromwell's fort on the north end of Valen1831, 2,614; in 1841, 2,920. Houses 524. The tia Island and Innisbeg; and the mark for clearing a island is washed on only the south-west side by the rock which encumbers the channel is Doulus Head Atlantic, and is bounded, on the ends and along the shut behind Innisbeg. The northern Cromwell's south-east side, by a strait of from of a mile to 1 fort for there is one also on the south end of the mile in width; and in consequence of its peculiar posi- island is situated on a tiny headland of Valentia, tion, and of the loftiness and great diversity of the land about 1 mile south by half west of Doulus Head; both on its own surface and round the shores of its en- and here was opened on Feb. 1, 1841, a lighthouse, vironing strait, it looks to the eye, except on a close with a beacon fixed and white. The cost of mainview, to be part of the mainland, and, in a general taining the lighthouse during the year 1843 was estimate of the coast-line of the county, cannot £604 14s. 2d. The soundings in Lough Kay vary without difficulty be treated as an island. The strait from 2 to 20 fathoms; but the minimum depths occur which bounds its ends and its south-east side is widest only near the eastern part of the north shore. A on the north and north-east, makes a brief expan- cove or small bay indents the coast of Valentia sion about the middle of the east, and contracts to Island immediately east of the promontory of Cromits minimum width at a point about 3 furlongs before well's fort and opposite the middle of Innisbeg; and bursting upon the ocean on the south. This great on the shore of this cove is a coast-guard station. Jand-locked natural harbour is the most westerly port The estuary of the Fartin or Cahirciveen rivulet, in Europe. Its geographical position, according to often here called the Valentia river, comes down the Admiralty chart, is 51° 55' 25" N. lat.; and south-westward upon the east end of Lough Kay, 10° 16′ 34′′ W. long. Its distance from London, by with a length of about 3 miles, and a mean breadth Bristol and Cork, is 472 miles; from Bristol, 352; of nearly 3 furlongs; but it is partly dry at low water, from Liverpool, by Dublin, 345; from Glasgow, by and has a mean depth at even the lower part of only Belfast and Dublin, 441; from Dublin, 207; from about 2 fathoms. Opposite the mouth of this estuFayal, 1,111; from Halifax, by Cape Race, 2,470. ary, and behind the south-east shore of Innisbeg, It now attracts public attention as a proposed chief with good depth, and in an entirely land-locked po rendezvous for ships sailing between Great Britain and sition, occurs one of the best anchoring-grounds of America, and terminus of a line of railway to connect Valentia Harbour. Immediately south-east of this, that rendezvous with Dublin, Liverpool and other and at the commencement of the southward sweep of ports, and as the terminus of a proposed railway to the strait which bounds Valentia Island, occurs a comWaterford and Wexford, to connect the Welsh parative strait, scarcely a mile across, with Rinard railways with the south of Ireland, and to open a Point and the ferry-house on its mainland side, and direct communication from London, by way of Bris- the pier of Valentia on its insular side. The pier tol and Fishguard, to the nearest and most convenient was constructed at the cost of £960 5s., of which port for all traffic across the Atlantic ocean. Valen- £705 were granted by government, £114 by the tia Harbour appears to have been preferred by most Dublin Committee, and £141 5s. by the Knight of speculators to Berehaven, Galway bay, Broadhaven, Kerry; it was preceded by a small fishery pier, and or any of the other proposed places of rendezvous has, since its construction, been extended into deeper and terminus; yet Berehaven was preferred, and water; and it is of great service at once for the shipalone surveyed for, by the Public Railway Commis- ment of the slate produce of the island, the encoursioners. The route of the line of railway now (in agement of the fisheries, the accommodation of ves1845) proposed to be made to Valentia, deflects from sels bringing imports from Liverpool, and the prothe projected Waterford, Wexford, Limerick, and tection of ships running for shelter from the violence Cork railway at Charleville, and proceeds through of the Atlantic. A boat-slip on the mainland shore Drumcolliher, Newmarket, Castle - Island, Killar- opposite the pier, is very desirable both as a landingney, Castlemain, Milltown, and Killorglin, to Cahir- place for the ferry-boats and as a place of resort for civeen. The north or mainland side of the north- the venders and carriers of fish, and might be conern and chief entrance of Valentia Harbour is structed at the cost of about £200. An expansion screened by the bold cape of Doulus Head, imme- of the strait occurs south-east and south of the pier diately overhung by Kilkane mountain; and the north to the width of about 13 mile; and forms a noble anor mainland shore of the harbour, a little east of choring-ground in a depth of about 33 fathoms. South Doulus Head, consists first of bluff ground, and next of this expansion is Ringlass Point; and thence to of softly-featured land, both overlooked by hill- the ocean, the sound curves from south round to summits which command a most imposing view of west, without any remarkable feature, and with the neighbouring alpine coasts, the stern, savage, nearly an uniform depth. The southern entrance is and stupendous sea-rocks of the Skelligs, and the overhung on both sides by stupendous and towering tremendous surges and mountain-billows of the At- ranges of acclivitous heights, whose seaward bases lantic. The comparatively broad part of the strait are pierced with caverns, formed by the powerful on the north, continues about 1 mile to the east of working of the billows; and the precipices and steep Doulus Head, bears the name of Lough Kay, and escarpments are tenanted by myriads of cormorants, possesses an island of rather more than a mile ingannets, gulls, and other sea-fowl. length, called Innisbeg, and an islet called Church |

The south-western coasts of Valentia Island, or