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Callan County Kilkenny, Ireland Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | Butler Stephenson, the rector; it formerly belonged to Lord Callan, and prior to that was the property of the Earl of Desart. |
 | | The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Ossory, united by act of council in 1763 to the rectories and vicarages of Tullaroan, Tullamain, Coolaghmore, Killaloe, and Ballycallan, together forming the union of Callan, in the alternate patronage of the Crown and the Marquess of Ormonde. |
 | | The chapel at Callan is a spacious edifice, not quite finished, in the southern part of the town ; the interior is very neat, and the ceiling is chastely and handsomely carved. |
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