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County Sligo, Ireland
Civil Parishes
Emlyfadd
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
EMLYFADD, a parish in the barony of CORRAN, county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT, on the road from Boyle (Co. Roscommon) to Coolaney ; containing, with the post-town of Ballymote, 4645 inhabitants ; and comprising 9915 statute acres, chiefly pasture, with some bog.
Agriculture is improving : there are quarries of good limestone in the parish.
The gentlemen’s seats are Carrowkeel, that of F. Mac Donagh, Esq. ; Drimrane, of J. Taaffe Esq. ; Temple House, of Col. A. Percival ; the glebe-house, of the Rev. J. Garrett ; and Earlsfield, the property of Sir R. Gore Booth, Bart.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Achonry, united by act of council, in 1807, to Kilmorgan, Kiltora, Tumore, and Drumratt, together forming the union of Emlyfadd, in the patronage of the Bishop ; the rectory is impropriate partly in Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart., and partly in the Earl of Kingston. The tithes amount to £407. 7s. 7½d., of which £168. 1s. 6d. is payable to Sir H. Montgomery, an £239. 6s. 1½ d., to the vicar, from which latter sum the Earl of Kingston claims £40 ; and the gross amount of the tithes of the benefice is £710. The glebe house was built by aid of a gift of £100 and a loan of £600, in 1810, from the late Board of First Fruits ; the glebe comprises 20 acres. The church, at Ballymote, is a good building in the early English style, remarkable for the beauty of its tower and spire ; it was erects by aid of loans of £550, in 1818, and £1000, in 1831, from the late Board, and donations of $300 from the Earl of Orkney, and £100 each from the Bishop of Killala and E. S. Cooper, Esq. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £190 for its repair.
In the Roman Catholic divisions this is the head of a union or district, also called Ballymote, comprising this parish and that of Kilmorgan, in each of which is a chapel ; that in Ballymote is a large building.
There is also a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
In the parish are four public schools, of which the parochial school is aided by Sir R. G. Booth, Viscount Lorton, and local subscriptions and in which about 450 children are instructed. There are also two private schools, in which are about 100 children.
The ruins of
the old church, with its steeple, form a conspicuous object, from their elevated
situation. An abbey is said to have been founded here by St. Columb,
over which his disciple, St. Enna, presided. On the edge of Temple
House lake are the ruins of an old house, once inhabited by the Knights
Templars ; and near Ballymote is a fort of considerable elevation.
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