descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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Loughrea BMD's

1830/40's maps of Ireland

ISERTKELLY, or DYSERTKELLY, a parish, in the barony of LOUGHREA, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 7½ miles (S. W.) from Loughrea town on the road to Gort ; containing 282 inhabitants.

Here is Castleboy, the seat of R. Persse, Esq., in whose demesne are the ruins of an ancient castle in good preservation.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmacduagh, forming part of the union of Killinane; the rectory is appropriate to the see. The tithes amount to £34, of which £6 is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the remainder to the vicar.

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