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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Killenagh
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLENAGH, a parish, in the barony of BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 4¼ miles (S. by E.) from Gorey ; containing 706 inhabitants.
This parish is on the eastern coast, and almost exclusively under tillage.
It is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, forming part of the union of Ardamine : the rectory is impropriety in H. K. G. Morgan, Esq., who receives the whole of the tithes, amounting to £145.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it forms part of the union on district of
River-chapel, or Ballygarret. A dispensary was established here
in 1829. About 30 children are educated in a private school.
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