WESTPALSTOWN

WESTPALSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of BALROTHERY, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 12 miles (N.) from Dublin; containing 280 inhabitants. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, forming part of the union and corps of the prebend of Clonmethan in the cathedral of Christ-Church, Dublin; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of that cathedral.

The tithes amount to £150, of which two-thirds are payable to the vicars choral, and the remainder to the vicar.

In the R. C. divisions it is in the union or district of Damastown. The ruins of the church still exist.

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