KILLOUGHTER, a parish, in the barony of TULLAGHGARVEY, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Belturbet, on the road from that place to Cootehill; containing 6130 inhabitants.
It comprises 7633 statute acres of arable and pasture land, except about 250 acres of waste and bog.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Kilmore, formed out of the parish of Annagh in 1813, and in the gift of the Incumbent of that parish : the tithes amount to £14, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have granted an augmentation of £20 per annum. The church is a neat plain building, with a square tower. The glebe-house was built by did of a gift of £450 and a loan of £50 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1822, and has a glebe of 16a. 3r.
The Roman Catholic parish is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, and has a chapel at Red Hill.
There is a meeting-house for Primitive Methodists.
About 25 children
are educated in the parochial school, and 460 in ten private schools.
Back to Top - From Ireland Home page - Cavan page - Lewis Cavan Index - Main Lewis Index (all counties) -
County Cavan Roman Catholic (R.C.) records available on microfilm
Irish Genealogy Research Service - Irish Historical /Genealogical Maps - Past Homes Ltd. U.K.
Genealogical
Research Indices/Guides - CD ROM & Books
URL http://www.from-ireland.net
©Dr. Jane Lyons 2001-2005
Indices/Guides
- CD ROM & Books
Irish Flax Growers List - Tithe Applotment books - An Index to the Griffiths Valuation
A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards - A Guide to Irish Parish Registers
A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland - Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810
Irish Immigrants to North America - Irish Source Records -
Irish to America, 1846-1865 : Passenger & Immigration lists
New York, 1820-1850: Passenger & Immigration lists -
Emigrants from Ireland, 1847 -1852: State aided emigration from Crown estates
Ireland & Irish Emigration to the New World, 1815 to the Famine
The Search for Missing Friends. Irish Immigrant Advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot 1831-1920