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lalelish and Legacony, in which debts under 40s. are
recoverable. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of
Armagh, constituting the corps of the chancellorship of
the cathedral of Armagh, in the patronage, of the Lord-
Primate; the tithes amount to £1213. 4. 4. The glebe-
house, towards which the late Board of First Fruits
contributed a gift of £100, was erected in 1793; it
is a spacious and handsome residence, situated in
grounds tastefully disposed; the glebe comprises 679
acres of profitable land. The church, with the excep-
tion of the ancient tower, was rebuilt in 1814, at an
expense of £2800, of which £2000 was a loan from
the same Board; and in 1825 the massive square
tower was surmounted by a lofty octagonal spire cover-
ed with copper, at an expense of £300, of which half
was defrayed by the rector and the remainder by sub-
scription; it occupies a commanding eminence, and is
seen to great advantage at a distance. A church was
built in 1775 at Mullyvilly, for the accommodation of
the parishioners in that part of the parish: the living is
a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rector. The
R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Established
Church; there are two chapels, both small buildings,
situated respectively at Richhill and Mullavilly. There
are places of worship for Presbyterians in connection
with the Synod of Ulster, of the third class, and for
the Society of Friends and Independents. About 550
children are taught in eight public schools, of which two
are supported by the rector, two by the trustees of Eras-
mus Smith’s fund, one by Miss Richardson, of Richhill
Castle, and two are endowed with an acre of land each by
the rector, who also built the school-houses. There are
also two private schools, in which are about 70 children,
and six Sunday schools in connection with the Esta-
blished Church and the several dissenting congregations,
two of which are aided by annual donations from the
rector and Mr. Caulfield. A payment of £3. 1. 6. is an-
nually made to the poor, arising from land near the vil-
lage, called the Honey Pot field; and Mr. Atkinson, of
Greenhall, in 1827, bequeathed £50, of which the in-
terest is annually divided by the rector among the Pro-
testant poor. There are a mendicity association and
a voluntary poor fund. In the townland of Castle Roe
are extensive ruins of the castle which gave name to
the district, and which is said to have been founded
by Rory O’Nial in the reign of Elizabeth; it occupied
a lofty eminence, commanding the entire country. The
former glebe-house was part of the ancient abbey, and
contained several dormitories and cells with narrow
lights and very massive walls; but the only vestige of
the abbey is the holy well, enclosed in the rector’s gar-
den. On a high hill in the parish, Cromwell is said to
have had an encampment.
KILMORE, a parish, and the seat of a diocese,
partly in the barony of CLONMAHON, but chiefly in that
of UPPER LOUGHTEE, county of CAVAN, and province
of ULSTER, 3¼ miles (S. W.) from Cavan, on the road to
Killesandra; containing, with part of the market-town of
Ballinagh (which is separately described), 7161 inhabit-
ants. This parish, which derives its name, signifying the
“Great Church,” from the abbey of Cella Magna, founded
here at an early period by St. Columba, comprises, ac-
cording to the Ordnance survey, 16,886 statute acres, of
which 2154 are in Lough Oughter, and 14,114 are ap-
plotted under the tithe act. The soil is various, and the
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land in some parts under profitable cultivation; there
are some quarries of good building stone, and gold and
silver have been found in some parts. The principal
seats are Lismore Castle, that of Major Nesbitt; the
Rocks, of J. C. Tatlow, Esq.; Castle Corby, of J. Whit-
thorne, Esq.; Belleville, of Capt. A. Fleming; Bingfield,
of H. T. Kilbee, Esq.; Drumheel, of R. Bell, Esq.,
Lisnamandra, of G. L’Estrange, Esq.; Drumcorbin, of
G. T. B. Booth, Esq.; Tully, of Major R. Stafford; and
Hermitage, of R. Stephens, Esq.
The DIOCESE of KILMORE
does not appear to have been
of very ancient foundation;
the first prelate of whom any
mention occurs is Florence
O’Conacty, who succeeded
in 1231, under the designa-
tion of Bishop of Breffny,
from the territory of that
name, in which the see was
situated; and his succes-
sors are styled indifferently
Breffnienses, and Tribur.
nenses, or bishops of Triburna, from the small village
of that name, near which they generally resided. The
first who was styled Bishop of Kilmore was Andrew
MacBrady, who, in 1454, with the consent of Pope Ni-
cholas V., erected the parish church of St. Felimy, or
Fedlimid, of Kilmore, into a cathedral church, in which
he placed 13 secular canons; and since that period
Kilmore has given name to the see. From the unsettled
state of the district which constituted this diocese, it
was not affected by the Reformation so soon as others,
and it continued under the control of the bishop ap-
pointed by the Pope till 1585, when John Garvey,
Dean of Christ-Church, Dublin, was appointed the first
Protestant bishop, on whose translation to the see of
Armagh, this diocese remained without a bishop for
fourteen years, during which period it was annexed
to the bishoprick of Down and Connor, till the appoint-
ment of Robert Draper, in 1603, who obtained this
see, together with that of Ardagh, by letters patent
of Jas. I. In 1643 the see of Ardagh was united to
that of Kilmore, and continued to he held with it till
1752, when it was annexed in commendam to the
Archbishoprick of Tuam, with which it has ever since
continued. Among the most eminent prelates were
the venerable Bishop Bedell, and Bishops Sheridan
and Cumberland. It is one of the ten dioceses which
constitute the ecclesiastical province of Armagh; and
comprehends part of the county of Meath, in the pro-
vince of Leinster, part of Leitrim in the province of
Connaught, part of Fermanagh and the greater part of
Cavan, in the province of Ulster; extending about 74
English miles in length, and varying from 13 to 25 in
breadth, and comprising an estimated superficies of
497,250 acres, of which 2200 are in Meath, 184,750 in
Leitrim, 29,300 in Fermanagh, and 281,000 in Cavan.
The lands belonging to the see comprise 28,531 acres;
and the gross annual value of the bishoprick, on an
average of three years ending Dec. 31st, 1831, amounted
to £7477. 17. 0½. The corporation consists of a bishop,
dean, and archdeacon, but there are neither prebenda-
ries nor canons to form a chapter; even the archdea-
conry has no corps, but is annexed by the bishop to