Kilcommick civil parish, County Longford Ireland. Lewis Topographical Dictionary, 1837 ©Jane Lyons

KILCOMMICK, a parish, partly in the barony of ABBEYSHRUEL, partly in that of MOYDOW, but chiefly in that of RATHCLINE, county of LONGFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 3¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Ballymahon, on the road from that place to Longford town; containing 3806 inhabitants.

It comprises 7171 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £5775 per annum. There is much bog, also limestone containing shells and susceptible of a high polish. The Royal Canal runs through the southern part of the parish near Mosstown is a flour-mill.

The principal seats are Mosstown, that of A. J. Kingston, Esq. ; Lisglassick, of J. R. Robinson, Esq. ; Ledwithstown, of W. Ledwith, Esq. ; Lislea, of J. C. Bickerstaff, Esq. ; and Glanmore, of Newcomen Armstrong, Esq.

Mosstown was defended by the Newcomens in 1641, but was obliged to capitulate ; it was also garrisoned for King William by the same family, and was unsuccessfully besieged by James's forces.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ardagh, and patronage of the Archbishop of Tuam : the tithes amount to £277. The church is in Kenagh. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 173 acres.

The Roman Catholic parish is co-extensive with that of the established Church, and is called Clough, where there is a chapel. Divine service is also performed in a private house.

At Kenagh is a Primitive Methodist meeting-house.

About 180 children are educated in two public schools, to one of which the Countess of Rosse gives £15 per ann., besides a house and three acres of land, and to the other £14 per ann.; and about 250 children are taught in the private schools.

Several raths and the ruins of the old church remain, and at Ballynock and Mosstown are two dilapidated castles.

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