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by W. M. Reade, Esq., also two private schools of
about 150 children, and two Sunday schools. There are
remains of castellated residences of the Walsh family at
Castlehill, Clone, and Kerehill; also some chalybeate
springs.
KILMOILY, or KILMAYLY, a parish, in the ba-
rony of CLANMAURICE, county of KERRY, and province
of MUNSTER, 9 miles (N. N. W.) from Tralee, on the
western coast; containing 3525 inhabitants. It com-
prises 12,219 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe
act, chiefly in tillage. Several families of the settlers
called “Palatines” reside at Toherbanne, in this parish,
where a colony was established more than a century since
by an ancestor of the present proprietor, Silver Oliver,
Esq. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ard-
fert and Aghadoe, appropriate to the see; the rectory
is impropriate in the Earl of Cork. The tithes amount
to £450, of which two-thirds are payable to the impro-
priator, and the remainder to the bishop, who allows £5
per annum for discharging the clerical duties. There is
no church, glebe-house, or glebe; but divine service is
regularly performed in the school-house at Toherbanne,
and it is in contemplation by the bishop to procure the
erection of a church. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Ardfert; there
is a chapel at Lerrigs. The school-house at Toherbanne,
with apartments for the master, was erected by sub-
scription in 1835: in this and in two private schools,
about 150 children are educated. Near the churchyard
are the ruins of Ballykealy castle, an ancient residence
of the Fitzmaurices.
KILMOKEA, a parish, in the barony of SHEL-
BURNE, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEIN-
STER, 6½ miles (S.) from New Ross, on the road to
Fethard; containing 1225 inhabitants. It comprises
3361 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is
chiefly under tillage. The soil is light but in some parts
very good; the green slab on the banks of the Barrow,
containing a testaceous sediment equal to the finest marl,
is used for manure, and the state of agriculture has
been much improved under the auspices of the South
Wexford Agricultural Association. A part of the pa-
rish, called “the Island,” has since the recession of the
tide been embanked and reclaimed. The Barrow is
navigable here for vessels of the largest class, and an inlet
from it extending to the village of Campile is navigable
for small craft. Kilmanock is the residence of G. Powell
Haughton, Esq.; and Fruit Hill, of G. Glascott, Esq.,
in whose demesne, which is remarkable for its fine
timber, is a clump of evergreen oaks, here considered a
great curiosity. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns,
forming part of the union of Whitechurch and of the
corps of the prebend of that name in the cathedral of
Ferns: the tithes amount to £297. 4. 7¼. There is a
handsome glebe-house, with a glebe of 12a. Or. 38p.
In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or dis-
trict, called Sutton’s parish, comprising the parishes of
Whitechurch, Kilmokea, and Ballybrazill, and part of
Old Ross and St. James’s: there is a handsome chapel
at Horewood, with a commodious house for the priest;
the old chapel has been converted into a school, with
apartments for the master and mistress. About 130
children are educated in the school, and there is a pri-
vate school, in which 40 are taught. Here are the re-
mains of Ballykearogue castle and of its chapel; they
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are stated to have been built by Roger de Sutton, who
in 1170 accompanied Robert Fitzstephen and Hervey
de Montemarisco into Ireland, and obtained from the
latter large grants of land in the barony of Shelburne:
this district is often called after him Sutton’s parish.
In “the Island” are vestiges of two intrenchments, by
some supposed to have been thrown up by the Danes
to defend the pass to Ballinlaw ferry.
KILMOLARA, a parish, in the barony of KILMAIN,
county of MAYO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2¾
miles (S.) from Ballinrobe, on the road to Cong; con-
taining 1350 inhabitants. It is situated on Lough Mask,
and comprises about 2000 statute acres, principally in til-
lage; there are some fine limestone quarries. Neale Park
is the handsome house and demesne of Lord Kilmaine.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of
Tuam, united to the rectories and vicarages of Ballincalla
and Ross, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes
amount to £200, and of the benefice to £945. The
glebe-house and glebe of the union are in Ballincalla.
The church, a neat plain building with a square tower.
is situated in the parish of Cong, close to the boun-
dary of this parish: it is the property of Lord Kilmaine,
and has been recently repaired by a grant of £125 from
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In the R. C. divisions
the parish is the head of a union or district called the
Neale, comprising also the parish of Ballincalla; the
chapel is at the Neale. There is a public school, in
which about 80, and a private school in which about
100, children are educated. In the Neale park are some
remarkable antiquities, particularly a stone on which
are carved the figure of an unicorn opposite to a man
surrounded with a glory, and a lion below them. Ac-
cording to an inscription beneath this stone, it was found
in a cave near the spot, and the figures were the gods
worshipped here by Edda and Con, after the latter of
whom Connaught was named: the figures were called
in Irish “Dine Feale” or “Gods of Felicity,” from
which the place was called Nehale, or “The Neale.”
KILMOLASH, a parish, partly in the barony of
DECIES-within-DRUM, but chiefly in that of DECIES-
without-DRUM, county of WATERFORD, and province
of MUNSTER, 5 miles (S. E.) from Lismore; containing
1397 inhabitants. It comprises 3979 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act, of which about three-
fourths are arable, and includes some bog and mountain
land and about 70 acres of woodland. The river Phi-
nisk flows through the parish, and on its banks at
Bewley there is a cavern in the limestone rock, near
which was formerly a religious edifice, said to have be-
longed to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem The
principal seats are Woodstock, the residence of T. Welsh,
Esq.; and Ballinaparka, of T. J. Fitzgerald, Esq. It
is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, and in the pa-
tronage of the Bishop; the rectory forms part of the
union of Kilrush and of the corps of the archdeaconry of
Lismore. The tithes amount to £232.10. of which £ 155
is payable to the rector and the remainder to the vicar.
Here are the ruins of an ancient building, called Clough,
where it is said King John and his attendants halted on
their way from Waterford to Cork. It consisted of a
quadrangle of about a quarter of an acre, enclosed with
high walls, defended by towers at the angles, with a draw-
bridge on the south side; the towers alone appear to have
been roofed. Part of the ruins of the church exist.