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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Killinor or Kilnener
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLINOR, or KILNENER, a parish, in the barony of GOREY county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S. W.) from Arklow (Co. Wicklow), of the old road from that place to Gorey ; containing 1326 inhabitants.
It comprises 5807 statute. acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is chiefly in tillage. A cattle fair is held on Sept. 8th.
It is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, united by episcopal authority to Kilpipe : the rectory is impropriate in Sir Richard Steele, Bart: the tithes: amount to £124. 12s.3¾d., of which ; £69. 4s. 7½d., is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the curate. Here is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 17a. 8r. 20p.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Gorey, and has a chapel at Ballyfad.
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