KILCOLLUM,
or KILCOLM, a parish, in the barony of IDA, county of
KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (N. N. E,)
from) Waterford, on the river Barrow ; containing 2139
inhabitants.
This parish
comprises 7781 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and
valued at £4800 per annum.
It is
in the diocese of Ossory ; the rectory
is impropriate in Sir Ellis Leighton, and the vicarage forms
part of the union of Dunkit.
The tithes amount to £480, of which two-thirds are payable to
the impropriator and one-third to the vicar.
In the
Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Slieruagh.
About
160 children are educated in a school supported by Lady Esmonde,
who also supports a Sunday school.
