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Counties Westmeath & Offaly (King's county), Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilcumreagh or Kilcomragh
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILCUMREAGH, or KILCOMRAGH, a parish, partly in the barony of KILCOURSEY, KING’S county (Offaly), partly in that of CLONLONAN, but chiefly in that of MOYCASHEL, county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (E. N. E.) from Moat-a-Grenogue, on the road from Dublin to Athlone ; containing 3787 inhabitants.
This parish comprises 8065 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, with a small quantity of bog and some limestone.
The seats are
Ballintobber, the residence of W. Fetherston-H, Esq. ; Rosemount,
of
Lady Nagle ; Grouse Lodge, of E. Fetherston-H, Esq. ;
and Springfield, of J. Henderson, Esq.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Ardnorcher ; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Downshire. The tithes amount to £249. 15s. 8½d., of which £145. 0s. 7d., is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar ; there is a glebe of 21 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Kilmanaghan and Kilcumreagh, and has a chapel at Raleigh.
About 90 children
are educated in three private schools. A monastery of Dominican friars was
founded at Ballintubber, in 1488, by Edmund de Lantu Laici,
which was granted to Henry Matthews at the dissolution. Here are the
ruins of a church, and of an old fort; also several raths.
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