•  Kilmenan, County Kilkenny

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

KILMENAN, a parish, in the barony of FASSADINING, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER. 2 ¾ miles (S. by W.) from Ballynakill, near the river Nore; containing 316 inhabitants, and 1014 statute acres. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Attanagh; the tithes amount to £60. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Ballyragget.

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