Place:


Pleberstown  County Kilkenny

 

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

PLEBESTOWN, a reputed parish, locally situated in the parish of ABBEY-JERPOINT, barony of KNOCKTOPHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER; containing 237 inhabitants, and comprising 1432 statute acres. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde, to whom the tithes, amounting to £43. 3. 10., are entirely payable: for the performance of ecclesiastical duties it forms part of the union of Burnchurch.

How to reference this page:

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

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/30359

Date accessed: 18th May 2024


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