•  Follistown, County Meath

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Follistown like this:

FOLLISTOWN, or FONLISTOWN, a parish, in the barony of SKREEN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2 ½ miles (S. E.) from Navan, near the road to Duleek; containing, with the parish of Staffordstown, 137 inhabitants. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, entirely impropriate in F. Murphy, Esq., of Kilcarn, to whom the tithes, amounting to £36 are payable. The clerical duties are performed gratuitously by the incumbent of Skreen.

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