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Slatey, Sleaty or Sletty Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
SLATEY, SLEATY or SLETTY, a parish, in the barony of SLIEUEMARGUE, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 1¼ miles (N.N.W.) from Carlow; containing 189 inhabitants.
This parish,
which is situated on the river barrow, comprises 656 statute acres as
apploted under the tithe act, and valued at £728 per annum.
Knockbeg
is the residence of W. Carruthers Esq., and here is also that of
Gerald byrne, Esq.,
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, united to that of Shruel, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £60 and the gross valueof the benefice is £106.3s. 1d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Killeshin.
Here is a hedge school of 10 boys and 4 girls.
St. Fiech is said to have founded a church and bishoprick here, in the fifth century, the latter of which was afterwards transferred to leighlin; in the churchyard are two stone crosses of remote antiquity, and there are ruiuns of a small church called Slieb-teach, or “The Hosue near the Mountains”, which is said to have been originally a place of great importance.
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