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According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 201), ‘In former times the name Fennerstown, also written Ballyfennor and Ballyfinnan, extended to Newtown proper, that is the New Town of Fennerstown, and thus denoted nearly all the present townland of Newtown. Some centuries ago Ballyfinnan gave name to a small parish, impropriate in the Dean and Chapter of St. Canice’s Cathedral, about the year 1510, and long since merged in the civil parish of St. Canice’s. Its parish church appears in the Red Book of Ossory as the “Ecclesia de Ballyfynoun,” or Church of Ballyfinnan. No trace of this church remains; but it must have stood in Mr. Michael Madden’s land in Newtown proper, in a field called the Old Gardens, to which tradition still points as the site of a long obliterated “Churchyard.”. The precise location of this church (KK019-069002-) and graveyard within Newtown townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 October 2020
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