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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilmalog, Kilmallock or Kilmalogue
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILMALOG, KILMALLOCK, or KILMALOGUE, a parish, in the barony of BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (S. S. E.) from Enniscorthy, on the road to Wexford town; containing 1159 inhabitants.
It comprises 3748 statute acres, which are chiefly under cultivation, with the exception of part of a bog called Itty. Blue and white marl are abundant, and building stone is found at Garryvanen.
The principal seats are Ballinkeel, the residence of J. Maher, Esq. ; Kilmallock, of Mr. R. Peare, and Willmount, of Mr. J. Goodall.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, forming part of the union of Castle-Ellis or Kilmalog ; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth. The tithes amount to £202 – 12s. 1d., of which £120. 15s. 5d., is payable to the impropriator, and £81. 16s. 8d., to the vicar.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Crossabeg, and has a new chapel at Ballymurn. (see Kilpatrick civil parish)
There is a private
school, in which about 20 children are educated. Some remains of the old church
exist in a large burial-ground, which is still used for interment.
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