Principal 'Seat' of Rev. Ralph Stoney - Gurthmunger

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KILBARRON
Kilbarron 1837; a parish, in the Barony of Lower Ormonde, county of Tipperary, and province of Munster, 5 miles W. of Burris-o-Kane, on the road from Killaloe to Portumna; containing 2590 inhabitants. It comprises 7575 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is chiefly under tillage; about 150 acres are called the Commons of Kearney. Coarse limestone and a kind of red and white marble are found here, and lead was formerly obtained. here is a constabulary police station. The principal seats are Annah, the residence of J. Minchin, Esq.; Bellevue, of G.W. Biggs, Esq.; Mota, of T. Pepper Roberts, Esq.; Gurthmunger, of the Rev. R. Stoney; Annah Castle, of Joseph O. Tabourdeau, Esq.; Kilgarvin, of E. Cambie, Esq.; Waterloo Lodge, of the Rev. R.P. Vaughan; Garrane, of W. Legge, Esq.; and Castletown, of C. Cambie, Esq., a handsome castellated building on an eminence near the Shannon, commanding beautiful views of Lough Derg and the mountain scenery of Clare and Galway. The living is a vicarage, in the Diocese of Killaloe, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in Capt. Ralph Smith. The tithes amount to 360, of which 240 is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. The church is a neat building, for the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits gave 1000 in 1822. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of about 8 acres. In the R.C. divisions this parish is the head of a union or district, comprising also Terryglass and Finoe, and containing two chapels. About 40 children are educated in a public school, and about 150 in three private schools. here are the ruins of an ancient church, also of four castles, called Cush-lawn-Thullahawn, Cush-lawn-Thiggeburht, Annah, and Ballycollaton. Island More, in Lough Derg, containing about 130 Irish acres, belongs to this parish, but is considered to be in the county of Galway.

Kilbarron consists of - Ballinagross; Ballycolliton; Ballyscanlan; Bellevue; Brookfield; Cameron; Carrigagown North; Carrigagown South; Clonmakilladuff; Firgrove; Garryncurry; Glenaviegh; Glenbower; Gortmunga; Islands; Kevanstown North; Kevanstown South; Kilbarron; Kilbiller; Kilgarvan; Lahesseragh; Lisquillibeen; Meelick; Mota; O'Meara's Acres; Scarragh; Scribog

QUESTION: Ever hear of GURTHMUNGER? I can find nothing on it other than the mentions that come up from this same source (A Topographical dictionary of Ireland By Samuel Lewis (1837) Vol II, page 49