descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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Killoran Civil Parish Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index

KILLORAN a parish in the barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY and province of CONNAUGHT, 8 miles (W. N. W) from Eyrecourt, on the road from Loughrea to Ballinasloe, containing 1835 inhabitants. It comprises 3597 statute acres of which about one-fourth are arable, and the remainder pasture land and bog.

It is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Clonfert : the rectory is partly appropriate to the see, and partly, with the vicarage, forms a portion of the union of Kiltormer. The tithes amount to £79 1s. 6½d., of which £18 9s. 2¾d., is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and £60 12s. 3¾d., to the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Abbeygormagan, and contains a chapel.

About 80 children are educated in a private school.

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