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.
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