Killadoon Civil Parish, Sligo county, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons

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County Sligo, Ireland

Civil Parishes

Killadoon

descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

KILLADOON, a parish, in the half-barony of TIRAGHRILL, county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 7½ miles (N.N.W.) from Boyle(Co. Roscommon), on Lough Arrow; containing 1525 inhabitants.

The family of Mac Donogh, lords of Corran and Tirerril, founded a convent here, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, for nuns of the order of St. Dominick in 1427; there are still some ruins on the northern shore of Lough Arrow. The parish comprises 6364 statute acres as applotted under the tithe act, consisting principally of wet spongy land: there is a very large quantity of bog, and limestone is quarried.

It is a vicarage in the diocese of Elphin, forming part of the union of Kilmactraney; the rectory is impropriate in Col. Perceval; the tithes amount to £42, which is equally divided between the impropriator and the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it is part of the union or district of Geeragh or Kilmactraney.

About 170 children are educated in two private schools.

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