Faithlegg
Civil parish and townland in County Waterford, Ireland
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Faithlegg (Irish: Fáithling)[1] is a civil parish and townland in County Waterford, Ireland.[2] The townland, which is 2.6 square kilometres (1.0 mi2) in area, had a population of 372 as of the 2011 census.[3] Faithlegg is on a promontory at the confluence of the River Suir and River Barrow, with the village of Cheekpoint lying on the northeast of the promontory.[4]
History
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ecclesiastical enclosure, holy well, tower house and motte sites.[5][6]
The tower house (castle) at Faithlegg, historically associated with the Aylward family, was used as a defensive point during the Siege of Waterford in 1649.[4] The castle and its lands were captured and granted to a Cromwellian soldier, William Bolton, before later coming into the ownership of the Power family.[4][7] Faithlegg House, built on the estate in 1783, was expanded by the Power family in the late 19th-century.[8] It is now a hotel.[7]
Faithlegg's parish church, Saint Nicholas's Catholic Church, was built c. 1850 on the site of an earlier 13th-century Cistercian chapel.[5][9] It is within the Catholic parish of Killea, Crooke and Faithlegg in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.[10]
Sport
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Faithlegg Golf Course hosted the Women's Irish Open in 2000 and 2001,[11] and events in the PGA EuroPro Tour in 2007, 2008 and 2009.[12]
