In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Rathroe like this:
RATHROE, a parish, in the barony of SHELBURNE, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (E.) from Arthurstown: the population is returned with the parish of St. James. This parish, which has long since merged for civil purposes into those of St. James and Dunbrody, is estimated to contain 3981 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. ...
It is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, annexed to those of St. James and Dunbrody: the rectory is impropriate in Lord Templemore, to whom the tithes, amounting to £82. 18. 10., are payable. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the district of Hook.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rathroe, in and County Wexford | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/28757
Date accessed: 04th May 2024
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