Kyle - Wexford Guide and Directory, 1885
About “Wexford County Guide and Directory,” 1885
George Henry Bassett produced 7 Irish county directories in the 1880s: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary and Wexford. Each provides useful history of the respective counties as well as lists of office holders, farmers, traders, and other residents of the individual cities, towns and villages.
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Scattered population—Trout fishing.
NO more delightful drive is found in the vicinity of Wexford than that which connects it with Kyle. It is about five miles, English, by way of Ferry Carrig. Kyle is a rural Postal station, in which are a few houses on the road-side, and a pretty Protestant Church and Protestant School. Numerous plantations, surrounded by excellent lands, give picturesque effect to many private residences in the district. Among the number are Tykillen House, Bromley, Lonsdale and Mount Anna. Crossabeg is less than a mile from Kyle, on the way to Edenvale and Castlebridge. It is more of a village than Kyle, but is known to the Postal authorities by the latter name. Letters to its residents should be addressed Crossabeg, Kyle, Wexford. Crossabeg contains the Catholic Church, and is the place of residence of the Parish Priest. A trout stream, which sometimes affords good sport, runs at the foot of the hill, upon the side of which Crossabeg comfortably nestles.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Rev. Thos. Doyle, P.P., Crossabeg
Rev. James Walsh, C.C., Sion
PROTESTANT CHURCH (I.C.)
Rev. R. Burnett, Rector, Tykillen
POSTMASTER.
P, Courtenay
NATIONAL SCHOOL.
Mary Hughes, Mistress
PROTESTANT SCHOOL.
Mary Ellen Ewing, Mistress
GROCERS, FLOUR DEALERS, &c.
Foley, John, and cattle and spirit dealer
Smith, Wm., and farmer
FARMERS, LANDOWNERS, etc.
(Postal District.)
Barry, Silvester, Ballinacarrig
Bennett, Isaac, Newcastle up
Breen, Michael, Kereight
Breen, Richard, Kereight
Browne, James, Kitestown
Cashin, Thomas, Crory
Cloony, Michael, Monmore
Codd, Laurence, Munmore
Connor, John, Newcastle up
Cooper, Henry, Kavanagh’s park
Crowley, Michael, Newtown
Cullen, T., Garrywilliam
Davis, William, Monmore
Donnelly, John, Newtown upper
Doyle, John, Newcastle
Edward, Martin, Crory up
Flood, E. S., J.P., Ballinaslaney
Fortune, John, Crory upper
Fortune, Michael, Kereight
Fortune, Paul, Kereight
Fortune, Richard, Crory upper
Frayne, Joseph, Garrywilliam
Furlong, John, Tykillen
Gainfort, Thomas, Crory upper
Godkin, Samuel, Killowen
Goodall, Miss, Ballydicken up
Goodall, N., jun, Ballydicken up
Green, John (J.P.), Mount Anna
Harvey, C. W. (J.P.), Bromley
Harvey, Capt, Percy L. (D.L.), Lonsdale
Hawkins, Samuel, Crory middle
Hanlon, Brian, Kereight
Kehoe, Denis, Crory upper
Kehoe, Martin, Kereight
Kelly, Gregory, Farmhill
Laffan, Michael, Deeps
Lambert, James, Killowen
Lambert, John, Newcastle
Lambert, Mathew, Killowen
Lambert, Patrick, Ballydicken
Lambert, Robert
Lee, Frank, Sion
LeHunte, Misses, Artramont cotge
M‘Donald, John, Kitestown
Malone, Patrick, Ballyharron lr
Morris, Thomas, Newcastle up
Murphy, Peter, Deeps
Parkinson, Dr. R. J., Ballyharron
Redmond, Edward, Munmore
Rossiter, Henry, Garrycleary
Sinnott, William, Newcastle up
Shortall, James, St. Edmonds
Thornton, Robert, Garrywilliam
Walker, Henry, Killowen
Walker, Capt. Thomas J. (D.L.), Tykillen house
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