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Rh MIALAGH. 825 MICHAEL'S MOUNT, ST. MIALAGH, or BEAL, a small river of co. Cork, Ireland, rises under Owen's Hill, and after forming the i.'t of Dunamaro falls into Bantry Bay. MIAWST, a hmlt. in the par. of Llanarthney, co. Carmarthen, 7 miles E. of Carmarthen. MICHAEL CARHAYES, ST., a par. in the E. div. of the hund. of Powder, co. Cornwall, 4 miles E. by S. of Tregony, its post town, and 7 S.W. of St. Austell. Tin, 1 parish, which is email, is situated on the shore of i English Channel, by which it is bounded on the S. It includes the small port called Luny, or Veryan Bay, and contains the limits, of Carhayes-Barton and T'ol- gruin. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agricul- ture. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of 150. The living is a rect. and vie.* in the dioc. of Exeter, val. with St. Dennis and St. Stephen's, 659. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a stone structure, with a lofty castellated tower. The interior contains, besides the sword of Sir Hugh, who was at Bosworth Field, several monuments to the Trevauions. There is a school, chiefly supported by the Trevanions. MICHAEL CHUKCH, a par. in the hund. of Lower Wormelow, co. Hereford, 1 J mile N. of Tretire, to which jinnsh it is joined, and 5 miles N.W. of Eoss, its post town. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated in a valley, and is watered by the Garran Brook. The inhabitants are wholly engaged in agriculture. The land in general is of inferior quality, the soil being a stony loam, alternated by a red clayey earth. The Black mountains are seen at a dista'nce of about 3 miles. Stone is quarried of a light green colour. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of 22. The living is a rect. annexed to that of St. Margaret's, Tretire, in the dioc. of Hereford, joint val. 182. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient stone structure, with a small belfry containing two bells. MICHAELCHURCH-ESKLEY, a par. in the hund. of Ewyas-Lacy, co. Hereford, 14 miles S.W. of Hereford, its poet town, and 7 N.W. of Pontrilas railway station. The village, which is small, is situated on the river Eekley, a branch of the river Munnow, and is wholly agricultural. The soil consists of a sandy loam on a subsoil of Old Hed sandstone. The parish is sheltered by the Black mountains, which lie at a distance of about 4 miles. The living is a perpet. cur. annexed to that of Tretire, in the dioc. of Hereford. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient stone etructuro, with a tower containing five bells. The parochial charities 'produce about 23 per annum. There is a free school for both sexes, supported by R. W. Barton, Esq., whose mansion and park are in the neighbourhood. This parish is in the manor of Ewyas. MICHAELCHURCH-ON-ARROW, a par. in the hund. of Painscastle, co. Radnor, 6 miles S.W. of King- ton, its post town, and 4 W. of Cardiff. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated on the river Ely, a branch of the Arrow. There are ruins of a Norman castle. The land is chiefly in pasture. The living is a rect. annexed to that of Brllley, in the dioc. of Hereford. Thi' church is dedicated to St. Michael. MICHAEL CHURCH, ST., a par. in the hund. of North Petherton, co. Somerset, 5 miles S. of Bridgwater, its poet town, and 7 N.E. of Taunton. The parish, which is inconsiderable, comprising only 60 acres, is situated the Exeter railway, and on the Taunton canal. It is wholly agricultural. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Bath and Wells, val. 80. The church, low square tower. The interior of the church has monu- ments to the Slade family of Mauusel House. Sir F. W. is lord of the manor. -Mil :i[AKI,-ON-VYRE, ST., a par. in the hund. of underness, co. palatine of Lancaster, 3 miles S.W. of Garstang, its post town. The parish, which is exten- ive, is situated on the navigable river Wyre, the mouth iik-h forms a harbour. It contains the tnshps. of . Inskipp, Rawclifl'c, Wood Plumpton, Eccleston, and Elswick. The par. is partly in Garstang, Fylde, and Preston unions. A portion of the land is moory, and a small quantity in woodland, the remainder is arable and pasture in nearly equal proportions. The tithes were commuted for corn-rents, under an Enclosure Act in 1816. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Man- chester, val. 550. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a structure of Henry VIII.'s time, erected on the sito of a much older one, said to have been one of three erected in this district shortly after the introduction of Christianity. In addition to the parish church, are the following district churches, viz. at Copp, Out-Rawcliffe, Inskip, and Wood Plumpton. The last-named is the most ancient, having been erected in 1640. Copp church was built in 1700, and Rawcliffe in 1838. There are National and other schools. MICHAEL-PENKEVIL, ST., a par. in the W. div. of the hund. of Powder, co. Cornwall, 2 miles S.E. of Truro, and 5 W. by S. of Tregony. The village, which is small, is situated at Mopas Ferry on St. Clement's Creek. The manor anciently belonged to the Penkevil family, from whom the parish takes the suflix to its name, and subsequently came through the Courtenays, Carmi- nows, and others, to the Boscawens of Tregothnan. The surface is rugged, and the subsoil a slaty rock, with traces of copper. There are two old scats known as Tregonian and Nancarrow. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Exeter, val. 156. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice, with a tower and but- tresses, and adjoins the park. It contains a monument by Rysbrach, to Admiral Boscawen, who died in 1761, and one to the "rich" Carminow. There is a school supported by the Earl and Countess of Falmouth. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, ST., an ext. par. place in the hund. of Penwith, co. Cornwall, a quarter of a mile S. of Marazion. It is a remarkable granite rock, about 1 mile in circumference, and 250 feet high, in Mount's Bay, and connected with the shore by a kind of cause- way of sand and rocks, which are submerged by every rising tide, and are dry only at low water. It is called by Ptolemy Ocrium, and is supposed to have been the island Iclis, or Iktas, of the Greeks, noticed by Diodones Siculus as the place near the promontory of Belerium to which the tin, when refined, was brought in carts by the Britons, to be exchanged with the Phoenician, mer- chants. Its British name was Carcg-ludgh-en-loos, ren- dered into the Cornish, Cara-Couz-in-Clouze, signifying "the grey or hoary rock in the woods," a tradition apparently confirmed by the discovery of a submarine forest, extending for some miles around the base of the mount, and covered with gravel and sand. The sub- limity of the spot caused it to be selected by the ancient Britons as a favourite resort for worship ; and shortly after the introduction of Christianity it became a place of pilgrimage, and was visited in the 5th century by St. Kelna, a princess of British royal blood, who founded a hermitage, which subsequently became the site of a Benedictine priory, to which Edward the Confessor granted the whole inland, with the castle and other build- ings. It was made by Robert, Earl of Mortaigne, a cell to the abbey of St. Maria de Pericula, in Normandy, and was seized in 1194 by Henry de la Pomeroy for Prince John. Upon the suppression of alien priories, Henry V. gave it to King's College, Cambridge; but in 1471, being surprised by John de Vere, in a pilgrim's disguise, it was recovered by Edward IV., and presented to Syon Abbey. It was seized by the Coruishmen during the rebellion of 1548, and in the civil war of the 17th cen- tury, having been fortified for the king, it was taken in 1646 by Colonel Hammond, the Parliamentary general. After the Restoration it became the property of the Arun- dells, Bassets, and others, from whom it has descended to the St. Aubyns of Devonport. The mount, which has more the appearance of a work of art than of nature, is exceedingly rugged, consisting of large masses of granite overhanging its base, and crowned with an embattled and turreted building called the chapel tower, which has been restored, and now forms part of the residence of Sir J. St. Aubyn, Bart., whose dining-room is formed out of the refectory of the ancient priory, and is adorned with carvings of licld-sports, from which it is known as
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