descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

for Civil Registration BMD reference refs (vital records) or just to see surnames found in this parish go to

Loughrea BMD's

1830's maps of Ireland

Killogilleen Civil Parish Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index

KILLOGILLEEN, a parish, partly in the barony of LOUGHREA but chiefly in that of DUNKELLIN, county of GALWAY and Province of CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (W) from Loughrea, on the road from that place to Ardrahan, containing 939 inhabitants.

Here is Monksfield, the residence of Capt. Morgan.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmacduagh, forming part of the union of Killinane : the rectory is appropriate to the see and archdeaconry of Kilmacduagh, and the vicars choral of Christ-church, Dublin ; the tithes amount to £120, of which £20 is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £18 to the Archdeacon, £20 to the vicars choral and £62 to the incumbent.

Here is a Roman Catholic chapel.

About 90 children are educated in a private school

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