Palmerstown, Fingal

{{short description|Civil parish in Fingal (and the traditional County Dublin), Ireland}}

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{{about|the parish in north-west County Dublin|the parish in south-west county Dublin|Palmerstown}}

Palmerstown ({{langx|ga|Baile Phámar}}) is a civil parish in the barony of Balrothery West in the modern county of Fingal, Ireland.{{cite web|url=http://logainm.ie/872.aspx|title=Palmerstown|work=logainm.ie|access-date=23 September 2013}} It comprises six townlands: Cottrelstown, Folly, Jordanstown, Palmerstown, Whitestown, and Wolganstown. It is surrounded by the parishes of Clonmethan to the east, Grallagh to the north, Ballymadun to the northeast, Donaghmore to the southeast, and Greenoge to the south; the last two being in County Meath.{{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,709018,753626,4,7|title=Mapviewer centred on Palmerstown|date=1836–42|work=First-edition 6-inch map|publisher=Ordnance Survey Ireland|access-date=23 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,709018,753626,4,7|archive-date=29 August 2012|url-status=dead}} Samuel Lewis recorded in 1837, when the Church of Ireland was the established church and the civil parish was conterminous with the ecclesiastical parish:{{cite web|url=http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/P/Palmerstown-Balrothery-Dublin.php|title=Palmerstown|last=Lewis|first=Samuel|year=1837|work=A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland|access-date=23 September 2013}}

Good building stone is found in the parish. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of Dublin, and the vicarage forms part of the union and corps of the prebend of Clonmethan: of the tithes, amounting to £135, two-thirds are payable to the vicars choral, and the remainder to the vicar.{{fact|date=February 2022}}