| Clontuskert, a parish
partly in the barony of Longford, but chiefly in that of
Clonmacoon, county of Galway, and province of Connaught,
5 miles from Eyrecourt, on the road to Ballinasloe;
containing 4002 inhabitants, and comprising of 11,837
statute acres. St. Baedan, founded a monastery
here for the Augustinian canons, in the early part of the
9th century, and was the first abbot; at the suppression
it was granted to Richard Earl of Clanricarde. Gortnamona
is the seat of J. Blake, Esq. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Clonfert, and with the greater portion
of the rectory united, is the part of the union of
Clonfert: the other portion of the rectory is appropriate
to the see: the tithes amount to £304. 12.3 ¾. of which
£46. 3.1 is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioner,
and £258. 9.2 ¾. to the incumbent. The glebe - house
was built in 1820, by aid of a gift of £250, and a loan
of £450 from the same Board. |
The school at Glanahan today. |
