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| | GENUKI: County Kilkenny - Parish of Thomastown |
 | | "Thomastown", an incorporated market and post-town, (formerly a parliamentary borough), and a parish, in the barony of Gowran, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 21 miles (N.) from Waterford, and 59 (S.S.W.) from Dublin, on the mail coach road to Waterford; containing 3054 inhabitants. |
 | | This place, situated on the river Nore, and on the southern border of the county, was anciently called Grenan; it took its present name from Thomas Fitz-Anthony Walsh, Seneschal of Leinster, one of the earliest English proprietors in Ireland, who built a castle here, and made the town a free borough. |
 | | Parish Townland Acres Diocese Thomastown Burrellspark 24 Ossory Thomastown Cloghabrody 375 Ossory Thomastown Grenan 653 Ossory Thomastown Newtown 500 Ossory Thomastown Smithstown Lower 98 Ossory Thomastown Smithstown Upper 358 Ossory Thomastown Stampspark 16 Ossory Thomastown Thomastown 16 Ossory |
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