Excerpt from The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, Vol. 3: Adapted to the New Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled With a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1844-45; N-Z, Index Naas (noara), a barony of the county of Kil dare. Leinster. It is bounded, on the north, by North Salt; on the east, by South Salt; on the south-east, by co. Widrlow; on the south, by South Naas; and on the west. By Connell and Clane. Length, southward, 7 miles; breadth, from 2 to area, acres, 2 roods, 5 perches, - of which 65 acres. 14 perches are in the river Lifl'ey. The surface consists of, for the most part, a low. flat, rich, and pleasant portion of the east side of the basin of the Lifl'ey; and is traversed by both the Grand Canal itself and one of its branches. The Act 6 and 7 William IV., cap. 84, transferred two townlands of the Degreessh of Rathmore, and part of a townland of K' 'shee, from South Naas to North Naas; pop in 1841, 32. - North Naas con tains part of t e parish of Killashee, and the whole of the grisbesof Bodenstown, Johnstown, Kardifl's town, an. Rathmore, Sherlockstown, Ti per, and Whitechurch. The towns and chief vi] ages are Naas, Sallins, and Johnstown. Pop., in 1831, than; in 1841, 8131. Houses Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 588; in manufac tures and trade, $11 tn other pursuits, 575. Fam ilica dependent chiefly on property and professions, 53; on the directing of labour, 615; on their own manual labour, 779; on means not specified, 17. Males at md above 5 years of e who could read and write, who could read ut not write, 718; who could neither read nor write, Females at and above 5 years of age who could read and write, who could read but not write 964; who could neither read nor write, -thrs bar my lies wholly within the Poor-law union of Naas. The total number of tenements valued is and of these. 790 were valued under GBP5, -187, under GBP10. - l26, under GBP15, - 60, under GBP20, - 56, under iii - Xi. Under GBP30, - 36, under 0, under GBP50. - and 119. At and above GBP50. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.