KILDELLIG,
or KILDELLYGLY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER OSSORY,
QUEEN'S county, and province
of LEINSTER, 3 3/4 miles (S. E. by S.) from Burros-in-Ossory,
on the road from Mountrath
to Rathdowney; containing 303
inhabitants.
It
comprises 1103 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act,
and is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part
of the union of Rathdowney: the
tithes amount to £57.10s.
In
the Roman Cathlolic divisions it forms part of the union or
district of Aghaboe. About 40 children
are educated in a private school.
A
religious establishment existed here at an early period, the last
mention of which is in 885, when the abbot was killed by the Danes.