No. 7, TABle of TowNLANDS IN Laid, (South Side,) coNTINUED. • These acres are those fixed for as the key of the parish, and average eight small acres, taken from the calculation of those dene. minations that had been surveyed. No. III. PARISH OF SAINT PETER, ATHLONE, (Diocese of Elphin and County of Roscommon,) BY THE REV. ANNESLEY STREAN, INCUMBENT. Town, I. The Name of the Parish, Situation, Extent, &c. Situation. THE parish of St. Peter, Athlone, is situated in the county of Roscommon, sixty miles from Dublin, on the western side of the river Shannon, containing about one half of the town, a place of considerable note, on account of the siege it sustained, and the passing of the river by king William's army in the year 1691. The part of the town which is in this parish consists of ten streets, with the name of each at its entrance, painted on a board; beside fifteen lanes, of inferior consideration. In the town, and near the bank of the river, stood the ancient abbey dedicated to St. Peter, from which the parish derives its name, founded, as Sir James Ware informs us, in 1214, On part of the site of this abbey the parish church, which was built in the year 1804, now stands: scarcely a vestige of the old abbey remains. "This abbey," says Sir James Ware, "is called The Mo Name. |