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County Sligo, Ireland
Civil Parishes
Kilmacoen or Kilmacowen
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILMACOEN, or KILMACOWEN, a parish, in the barony of UPPER CARBERY, county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 46 miles (S. W.) from Sligo town, on the Ballysadere channel; containing 2296 inhabitants.
The name signifies the 'Church of the Sons of Oen.’ St Diermit, eldest brother of St. Cormac founded a church here on lands given by Flann-Dubh dynast of the Hy Fiacrii.
The parish comprises 3393 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act and valued at £5132 per Ann. The soil is light and stony and the land is principally under tillage : there is a small quantity of bog.
Here is Clover Hill, the seat of W. Creighton Chambers, Esq.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Elphin, forming part of the union of St. John's, Sligo : the tithes amount to £180. 15s. 4½d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions also it is part of the union or district of St. John's, Sligo.
There are two
public schools, one of which is supported by Mrs. Chambers. The burial-ground
of the old church, which is in ruins, is still used for interment. Here are
some druidical altars and cromlechs : and a golden torques was found here
some time since.
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