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County Westmeath, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Killagh
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLAGH, a parish, in the barony of DELVIN, county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2¾ miles (S.) from Castletown-Delvin, on the road from that place to Mullingar; containing 264 inhabitants.
It comprises 1291 statute acres, and is principally in tillage. there is plenty of limestone. Durdistown is the seat of Theobald Featherstonhaugh, Esq.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Kilcumney; the tithes amount to £40, and there is a glebe of 18 acres, valued at £20 per annum.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of
Castletown-Delvin. Here are the ruins of
the old church.
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