Kilbride Civil Parish, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons

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County Roscommon, Ireland

CIVIL PARISHES

Kilbride

description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

KILBRIDE, a parish, partly in the barony of ROSCOMMON, but chiefly in that of BALLINTOBBER, county of ROSCOMMON, and province of CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (N.) from Roscommon, on the road to Strokestown ; containing 7673 inhabitants.

It comprises 11,812 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act ;there is a large proportion of bog. The land is principally under tillage, but the system of agriculture ts unimproved. Lime-stone abounds.

The principal seats are Roxborough, the residence of A. Brown, Esq. ; Durham, of H. Corr, Esq. ; Holywell, of C. W. Blakeney, Esq. ; Drumdaf, of T. G. Digby, Esq. ; and Cappa Lodge, of Capt. W. Tattle.

Petty sessions are held every alternate week at a place called the Four-mile-House.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Elphin, and forms part of the union of Roscommon ; the rectory is impropriate in the Sandys family. The tithes Amount to £300. 18s., one-half payable to the impropriator and the other to the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilgeffin, also called Kilbride ; a chapel is in progress of erection.

About 20 children are educated in a public school, and. there are seven private schools, in which are about 450 children. Some remains yet exist of the Abbey of Derrane ; and there are several raths, one of which, on the lands of Holywell, has a treble fosse.