Place:


Lickoran  County Waterford

 

In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Lickoran like this:

LICKORAN, or LAWCORAN, a parish, in the barony of DECIES-WITHOUT-DRUM, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, 5 miles (N. E.) from Cappoquin; containing 529 inhabitants, and comprising between 3000 and 4000 acres. It is in the diocese of Lismore; the rectory is impropriate in the Duke of Devonshire, and the vicarage forms part of the union of Whitechurch: the tithes amount to £76. 17. 6., of which two-thirds are payable to the impropriator and the remainder to the vicar. About 60 children are educated in a private school.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lickoran, in and County Waterford | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/27440

Date accessed: 17th May 2024


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