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KILMACALLANE, or KILMACALLEN, a parish,
in the barony of TIRAGHRILI,, county of SLIGO, and pro-
vince of CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (S.E.) from Collooney, on
the road from that place to Ballyfarnon; containing 4262
inhabitants. It comprises 6711 statute acres, of which
5828 are applotted under the tithe act; the land, which
is wet and spongy, is chiefly in tillage, and there is a con-
siderable quantity of bog and marsh. Fairs are held at
Castle-Baldwin on June 4th and Nov. 3rd. The principal
seats are Cooper’s Hill, the residence of A. B. Cooper,
Esq.; Lakeview, of — Weir, Esq.; and Heapstown, of
M. Dillon Manning, Esq. It is a prebend, rectory, and
vicarage, in the diocese of Elphin: the prebend consists
of portions of the tithes of Taunagh, Drumcollum, Bal-
lynakill, and Ballysumaghan, amounting to £158. 15.4.;
the rectory is impropriate in Viscount Lorton, and the
tithes amount to £166. 3. 1., which is equally divided
between the impropriator and the vicar; the vicarage
forms part of the union of Boyle. The church is a plain
building in Riverstown, for the repair of which the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners recently granted £183;
the Board of First Fruits having given £900 and lent
£500 for its erection in 1817. There is a glebe-house,
with a glebe of 19 acres. In the R. C. divisions it is
the head of a union or district, called Riverstown, com-
prising this parish, Drumcollum, and Taunagh, and
containing chapels at Riverstown and Ballycash. There
is also a meeting-house for Wesleyan Methodists at
Riverstown. About 270 children are educated in three
public, and 330 in five private, schools; there is also a
Sunday school. Part of the old church remains, and
the burial-ground is still used as a cemetery.
KILMACALOGUE.—See TUOSIST.
KILMACANOGUE, a parish, in the barony of
HALF-RATHDOWN, county of WICKLOW, and province
of LEINSTER, 2½ miles (S. S. W.) from Bray, on the
road from Dublin to Wexford; containing 1136 inha-
bitants, of which 103 are in the village. The village
comprises 17 houses, and is situated between the bases of
the Great and Small Sugar Loaf mountains, on the road
to the Glen of the Downs. The parish comprises 4890
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, besides a
considerable quantity of mountainous waste land and
some bog; the system of agriculture is improving. The
principal seats are Hollybrooke, the residence of Sir
G. F. Hodson, Bart., a handsome mansion in the
Elizabethan style, erected in 1835, and surrounded with
beautiful grounds; and Wingfield, the seat of the Rev.
T. Quin: besides these there are Kilmacanogue House,
the residence of W. W. Hicks, Esq., Grove Hill, of Ulick
Burke, Esq. and several other good houses. It is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin and Glen-
dalough, forming part of the union of Delgany: the
tithes amount to £120. 16. 7. In the R. C. divisions it
is part of the union or district of Bray, and contains a
small chapel. About 70 children are educated in a
private school, and there is a Sunday school. The re-
mains of the old church, covered with ivy, are in the
burial-ground. Gen. Wolfe was born at Kilmurray, in
this parish.
KILMACDONOUGH, a parish, in the barony of
IMOKILLY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
3¾ miles (S. W.) from Youghal; containing 3446 inha-
bitants. It forms a peninsula on the south-western
side of Youghal bay, and comprises 6065 statute acres,
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as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £5653 per
annum. Its general aspect is hilly and the coast bold
and rocky. At the extremity is Ring Point, about half
a mile from which is Capell Island, which is separately
described. The small village of Ballymacoda is situated
about a mile from the coast, on an inlet of the bay, from
which at low water a great quantity of sand is obtained.
In the parish are a coast-guard station, a signal tower,
and a dispensary. The principal seats are Ballykin-
nelly, the residence of Capt. Fitzgerald, R.N., which was
formerly a religious establishment; Ring, of J. M c Carthy,
Esq.; and Greenland, of G. Gaggin, Esq. It is a vicar-
age, in the diocese of Cloyne, forming part of the union
of Kilcredan: the rectory forms the corps of the pre-
bend of Kilmacdonough in the cathedral of Cloyne. The
tithes amount to £1012. 15., of which £675. 3. 4. is
payable to the prebendary, and the remainder to the
vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union
or district, called Ballymacoda, which includes the parishes
of Kilmacdonough, Kilcredan, Ightermurragh, Bohillane,
and Kilmahon, and contains chapels at Ballymacoda,
Lady’s-Bridge, and Shanagary. About 40 children are
educated in a school aided by the parish priest, and about
50 in a private school; there is also a Sunday school
supported by the rector. Here are the ruins of Bally-
macoda castle, which is said to have been built by Tho-
mas Fitzgerald in 1521; and of the old church.
KILMACDUAGH, a parish, and the seat of a dio-
cese, in the barony of KILTARTAN, county of GALWAY,
and province of CONNAUGHT, at the junction of the
roads from Ennis to Galway and Ballinasloe; contain-
ing, with part of the post-town of Gort, 3770 inha-
bitants. This see was founded by St. Colman, son of
Duach, of the noble family of Hy Fiacrii of Connaught,
distinguished from other Colmans, his cotemporaries,
by the appellation of Mac Duach, and who, after seven
years strict seclusion, about the year 620 fixed his resi-
dence at this place, where he built a monastery and
church, called after him Killmac-Duach, whence the dio-
cese has taken its name. It was amply endowed by Guair,
then King of Connaught, and subsequently by his suc-
cessors. Mac Duach presided over the diocese till his
death, and of his successors previously to the arrival of
the English, the name of one only, Indrect, occurs, who
died in 814. Maurice,bishop of this see, who died in 1283,
erected on the site of the original foundation, at a short
distance from the present cathedral church, a monas-
tery for Augustinian canons, which subsisted till the Re-
formation, when it was granted to the Earl of Clanrick-
arde. Stephen Kerovan, who was consecrated in 1573,
was translated to the see of Clonfert in 1582, from
which time this see remained vacant till 3587, when
Roland Linch succeeded to the prelacy; and he being,
in 1602, translated to the see of Clonfert, obtained
permission to hold this diocese with it in commendam,
since which period the two sees continued to be always
held together, till the recent death of the Right Rev.
Dr. Butson, when both were annexed to the see of Kil-
laloe, and the temporalities vested in the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, under the provisions of the Church
Temporalities Act of the 3rd and 4th of Wm. IV. It is
one of the six that constitute the Ecclesiastical province
of Tuam, and is wholly within the county of Galway,
comprising an estimated superficies of 64,000 acres.
The lands belonging to the see comprise 3950½ statute