Tecolme, Queens County

Historical Description

TECOLME, a parish, in the barony of BALLYADAMS, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (S. W.) from Athy, on. The road from Stradbally to Carlow; containing 228 inhabitants. It is in the diocese of Leighlin; the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of Thos. Fitzgerald, Esq.; the vicarage forms the corps of the prebend of Tecolme, in the patronage of the Bishop. The tithes amount to £100. 7. 8¾., of which £66.18.6. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Ballyadams.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tecolme from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1840 by Samuel Lewis (Tecolme)

Land and Property

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