AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN FOR LAST 3 YEARS. Wheat,..30s. per bag of 20 stone, (two hundred and a half weight.) Barley,..30s. per barrel of 36 stone. Oats,.... 25. per barrel of 33 stone. No. XXIV. PARISH OF TINTERN. (Diocese of Ferns, and County of Wexford.) BY THE REV. WILLIAM ARCHDALL, CURATE. 1. Name of the Parish, Situation, Extent, &c. TINTERN, otherwise called Kinna, is situated in the barony of Shelburn, county of Wexford and diocese of Ferns. It is bounded on the north by the union of Ross; on the south by the bay of Bannow and parish of Fethard; on the east by the river Blackwater; and on the west by the parish of St. James or Dunbrody. The parish is divided into thirty-two townlands, and is about seven miles long and three broad: about one-half of it is arable, and the remainder meadow and pasture. The Tintern river, which, rising in the bog of Rathumney, empties itself in the bay of Bannow and the Blackwater, which rising at the rock of Carrickburne, empties itself into the same bay, runs from north to south through the parish. Here is neither mountain nor remarkable hill. The parish is well planted, but has no woods: turbaries are in abundance. The climate is healthy, occasioned most probably, by the dryness of the soil. II. Mines, Minerals, &c. Some few quarries of building stone are worked here. We have abundance of sea-sand, which is Sea-sand. used for manure with good effect. The bay of Bannow produces plenty of shell and other fish, It is remarkable for large cockles and oysters; the cockles are carried by hundreds of jolters as far as Kilkenny. Preparations are now making for forming a salmon weir on an improved plan, introduced by some Scotchmen, with much good effect, into this neighbourhood; but what the success may be, cannot be even conjectured. III. Modern Buildings, &c. Tintern is but a small village, from which a road Village. leads from south to north to Ross; the other road which intersects the parish is that leading from Wexford to Duncannon fort and to Fethard, from east to west. The gentlemens' seats are Mr. Colclough's, Gentlemens with a demesne and plantation on a very large scale; Mr. B. B. Colclough's at St. Kearnes and Tamlaght on the bay of Bannow, and Mr. Mac Cord's at Curraghmore, on the left hand from Tintern to Ross, about nine miles from the latter. Seats. A bridge has been lately built over the Blackwater Bridge. which promises to be of considerable advantage, as |