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County Westmeath, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilpatrick or Dorsakile
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILPATRICK, or DORSAKILE, a parish, in the barony of DEMIFORE, county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. E.) from Castle-pollard, on the road to Killucan ; containing 416 inhabitants.
It comprises 1388 statute acres ; the soil is fertile and principally under tillage, and there is abundance of limestone.
It is a curacy, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Rathgraff; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of Christ-Church cathedral, Dublin, to whom the tithes, amounting to £110 are payable.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is part of the union or district of St. Mary's.
There is a private
school, in which about 65 children are educated. Here are the ruins of an
old church, with the vestiges of a fortified building nearly adjacent, and
part of another fort is on the lands of Tuitestown. There are also
five large raths.
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