Kilermogh or Kildermoy Civil Parish, County Laois, or Queen's County.

Killermogh or Kildermoy, a parish in the barony of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN'S county, and province of Leinster, 1¾ mile (N. by W.) from Durrow, on the road from that place to Roscrea (co. Tipperary); containing 1078 inhabitants. It comprises 2916 statute acres, of which about 250 are waste land and bog; the remainder is arable and pasture land. Limestone is obtained for building and burning.

Here is Tentower, the seat of R. Wolfe, Esq.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, and in the patronage of the Ladies Fitzpatrick: the tithes amount to £141. 1. 8¼. The church, which is a neat building, but not in good repair, was erected in 1796, by aid of a gift of £500 from the late Board of First Fruits, which also gave £100 and lent £550, in 1817, for the erection of the glebe-house: the glebe comprises 306a. 2r. 23p.

In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Aghavoe (Aghaboe, Aughavoe) .

About 100 children are educated in two public schools, aided by the Ladies Fitzpatrick, and of which the parochial school is also aided by the rector; and there is a Sunday-school.

St. Columb is said to have founded an abbey here in 558.

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