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are corn and live cattle, of the former of which very-
great quantities are shipped; and the principal imports
are coal and salt. A lucrative fishery is carried on off
the coast; haddock and whiting are taken in great
quantities, and from 12 to 20 boats are daily employed
during the year. The manufacture of salt is also car-
ried on upon a small scale. The harbour is about half
a league to the east of St. John’s Point, and affords safe
shelter for coasting-vessels and for merchant-ships of
150 tons’ burthen; there is a good roadstead in off-shore
winds for vessels navigating the channel, and it is the
rendezvous of a considerable portion of the numerous
fishing-vessels that frequent this part of the coast. The
pier and quays extend on both sides of the entrance to
the bay, and have been greatly improved by Viscount
Bangor,at an expense of more than £18,000. Fairs are
held on the first Friday (O. S.) in February, June 9th,
Aug. 17th, and Nov. 12th, for live stock and pedlery;
and a manorial court is held on the first Tuesday in
every month.
The living is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese
of Down, and in the patronage of the Incumbent of
Rathmullen. The church, which had been rebuilt in
1716, and had subsequently fallen into a state of dila-
pidation, was again rebuilt in 1802, by the munificence
of the Rev. J. Hamilton, who died in 1797, and be-
queathed £1200 for that purpose. It is a neat edifice,
on the site of the former, in the early English style,
with a tower surmounted with an octangular spire,
affording an excellent landmark for mariners entering
the port. The glebe-house, towards the erection of
which the late Board of First Fruits granted £450 as a
gift and £50 as a loan, is a comfortable residence. The
stipend of the curate is £100, of which £20 is paid by
Lord Bangor, as impropriator of Rathmullen, and £80
by the trustees of Primate Boulter’s augmentation fund.
The R. C. parochial chapel is in the town, and there is
also a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. At
St. John’s Point are the ruins of a preceptory of Knights
Hospitallers; and about a quarter of a mile from the
town, on the shore, is a beautiful grotto, in which is a
well, seven feet deep, supplied with water oozing through
a mass of tufa at the top of the cavern. About half a
mile from the town, on the road to Downpatrick, is a
copious spring, the water of which is specifically lighter
by one-fourth part than spring water in general; and
close to the shore is St. Seordin’s Well, issuing from a
rocky bank,’and discharging at the rate of one hogshead
per hour, without any diminution in the driest weather.
Not far from this is a hole in the rock, which at the
ebbing and flowing of the tide emits a sound resembling
that of a huntsman’s horn.
KILLOUGHTER, a parish, in the barony of TUL-
LAGHGARVEY, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER,
6 miles (N. N. E.) from Belturbet, on the road from
that place to Cootehill; containing 6130 inhabitants. It
comprises 7633 statute acres of arable and pasture land,
except about 250 acres of waste and bog. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Kilmore, formed
out of the parish of Annagh in 1813, and in the gift of
the Incumbent of that parish: the tithes amount to
£14, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have granted
an augmentation of £20 per annum. The church is a
neat plain building, with a square tower. The glebe-
house was built by aid of a gift of £450 and a loan of
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£50 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1822,
and has a glebe of 16a. 3r. The R. C. parish is co-
extensive with that of the Established Church, and
has a chapel at Red Hill. There is a meeting-house
for Primitive Methodists. About 25 children are
educated in the parochial school, and 460 in ten private
schools.
KILLOWEN, or KILLOWNEY, a parish, in the
barony of KINNALMEAKY, county of CORK, and province
of MUNSTER, 4 miles (W.) from Bandon, on the road
from that place to Dunmanway; containing 432 inha-
bitants. It comprises 1260 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act; the land is generally good, but the
old system of agriculture is pursued, and the heavy
wooden plough is still in use. Mamore is the resi-
dence of S. B. Beamish, Esq. The living is a rectory,
in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of Lord
Kinsale: the tithes amount to £140. 12. 9. Divine
service is performed in a house licensed by the bishop.
In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or dis-
trict of Templemartin. Here is a Sunday school, sup-
ported by the rector. A large mass of white quartz is
called by the peasantry the “holy stone,” around which,
according to tradition, the priest formerly assembled
the parishioners for public worship.
KILLOWEN, or ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, a parish,
in the barony of COLERAINE, county of LONDONDERRY,
and province of ULSTER, forming part of the suburbs of
Coleraine, and containing 2906 inhabitants. This parish,
which is included within the present borough of Cole-
raine, is situated on the western bank of the river Bann,
and is connected with the town, on the opposite side, by
a fine wooden bridge of considerable length. That part
of the parish which is more especially the suburb con-
sists of one long street, called Captain-street, forming a
continuation of Bridge-street, Coleraine. It contains
many small houses, nearly the whole of which are held
by various tenures under the Clothworkers’ Company,
of London, who obtained a lease of the parish from the
Irish Society, to whom it had been granted by Jas. I. in
1609. A small trade is carried on, chiefly in the manu-
facture of calicoes and ginghams; and fairs are held on
May 12th and July 5th. The parish comprises, accord-
ing to the Ordnance survey, 1796 statute acres, of
which 1714 are applotted under the tithe act, and
valued at £2243 per annum: the lands are chiefly
under tillage, the soil is fertile, and the system of
agriculture greatly improved. Jackson’s Hall, the seat
of Mrs. Maxwell, occupies the site of an ancient castle,
erected, in 1213, by Mac Ughtry, who in that year
destroyed the abbey founded on the spot by St. Car-
breus, in 540.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Derry, and
in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to
£160. The original parish church, which was part of a
priory founded in 1080, was, in 1830, converted into a
school-house; and a small neat church, without either
tower or spire, was built at an expense of £1000, towards
which £300 was given by the Clothworkers’ Company,
£100 by Bishop Knox, £50 by the Irish Society, and
£170 as a gift and £380 as a loan by the late Board of
First Fruits. The glebe-house, towards the erection of
which the same Board granted a loan of £80, was built
in 1822: the glebe comprises 30 acres. In the R. C.
divisions the parish is the head of a union or district