Palmerstown, Fingal Explained

Palmerstown (Irish: Baile Phámar) is a civil parish in the barony of Balrothery West in the modern county of Fingal, Ireland.[1] It comprises six townlands: Cottrelstown, Folly, Jordanstown, Palmerstown, Whitestown, and Wolganstown. It is surrounded by the parishes of Clonmethan to the east, Grallagh to the north, Ballymadun to the northeast, Donaghmore to the southeast, and Greenoge to the south; the last two being in County Meath.[2] Samuel Lewis recorded in 1837, when the Church of Ireland was the established church and the civil parish was conterminous with the ecclesiastical parish:[3]

Good building stone is found in the parish. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of Dublin, and the vicarage forms part of the union and corps of the prebend of Clonmethan: of the tithes, amounting to £135, two-thirds are payable to the vicars choral, and the remainder to the vicar.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Palmerstown. logainm.ie. 23 September 2013.
  2. Web site: Mapviewer centred on Palmerstown. 1836–42. First-edition 6-inch map. Ordnance Survey Ireland. 23 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,709018,753626,4,7. 29 August 2012. dead.
  3. Web site: Palmerstown. Lewis. Samuel. 1837. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. 23 September 2013.