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house. The living is a vicarage, in. the diocese of
Achonry, forming part of the union of Emlyfadd; the
rectory is impropriate in Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart.
The tithes amount to £229. 13. 4½., of which
£109, 7. 6. is payable to the lessee of the impropriator,
and £120. 5. 10½. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions
the parish forms part of the union or district of Bunin-
aden. There are two private schools, in which are
about 200 children. There are numerous Danish raths
in the parish; and about three miles westward from
Colloony are the remains of Meemlough castle, built by
T. B. O’Hara; the walls are still entire and are per-
forated by flights of steps.
KILTORAGHT, a parish, in the barony of COR-
COMROE, county of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER,
3½ miles (W.) from Curofin, on the road from Kilfenora
to Ennis; containing 1145 inhabitants. In the civil
divisions it is not known as a parish, having merged
into that of Kilfenora: it comprises about 3080 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act, a large portion of
which consists of mountain pasture and bog. The
living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Kilfe-
nora; the rectory forms part of the union and corps of
the deanery; the vicarage was episcopally united, in
1795, to that of Clouney, together constituting the
union of Kiltoraght in the gift of the Bishop. Of the
tithes, amounting to £90, two-thirds are payable to
the rector, and the remainder to the vicar. The
church, for the erection of which the late Board of
First Fruits gave £800, in 1813, having been injured
during the late disturbances, is now in a dilapidated
state; divine service is performed at the glebe-house,
for the erection of which the same Board gave £450,
and lent £62, in 1814. In the R. C. divisions the
parish forms part of the union or district of Kilfenora:
a chapel is now being erected at Inchioveagh, on the new
line of road to Ennistymon. About 110 children are
educated in a private school. There are some remains
of a castle at Inchioveagh.
KILTORKIN, a parish, in the barony of KNOCKTO-
PHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER;
containing 176 inhabitants. This parish comprises
1012 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. It
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory,
forming part of the union of Knocktopher; the tithes
amount to £43. In the R. C. divisions it is part of
the union or district of Ballyhale.
KILTORMER, a parish, in the barony of LONG-
FORD, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT,
3¼ miles (N. W.) from Eyrecourt, on the road to Lough-
rea; containing 2133 inhabitants. It comprises 4859
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and a
considerable quantity of reclaimable bog. Here is a
constabulary police station. The principal seats are
Eyreville, an elegant mansion in the Italian style of
architecture, the residence of T. Stratford Eyre, Esq.,
by whom it was built; Bellevue, of W. Lawrence, Esq.;
Mount Pleasant, of Chas. Seymour, Esq.; Skycur, of
P. Callaghan, Esq.; Ballydonagh, of F. Madden, Esq.;
and Chilhame, of De La Warr Digges, Esq. The living
is a vicarage, in the diocese of Clonfert, episcopally
united in 1813 to the rectories and vicarages of Kil-
loran and Abbeygormagan, and in the patronage, of the
Bishop; the rectory is appropriate to the bishop and
deanery of Clonfert. The tithes amount to £101. 10.9¼.,
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of which £41. 10. 9¼. is payable to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, £27.13. 10¼. to the dean, and £32. 6. 1¾.
to the vicar; the tithes of the benefice amount to
£200. 18. 5½. The glebe-house was erected by a gift
of £450 and a loan of £145 from the late Board of
First Fruits, in 1818: there is a glebe of two acres.
The church, which is in the village of Kiltormer-Kelly,
was built in 1815 on a site given by T. Stratford Eyre,
Esq., by a gift of £600 and a loan of £200 from the
same Board, and has been recently repaired by a grant
of £109 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; it is a
neat edifice with a square tower, enclosed in a planted
area. In the R. C. divisions the parish is the head of a
union or district, comprising also part of Clonfert, and
has a chapel at Kiltormer-Kelly. The parochial school,
in which 50 children are educated, is aided by a dona-
tion of £6 annually from the incumbent; and there is
a national school, in which nearly 400 children are
taught, for which J. Prendergast, Esq., gave the site
and £50 towards its erection. There are also two private
schools of about 90 children. At Ballydough, on the
south side of the road, are the foundations of a large
castle. A holy well here is resorted to annually on the
last Sunday in July by numbers of the peasantry.
KILTORMER-KELLY, a village, in the parish of
KILTORMER, barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY,
and province of CONNAUGHT, 7 miles (S. by E.) from
Ballinasloe: the population is returned with the parish.
This is a rising village, in a well cultivated district,
within 5 miles of the Grand Canal; and has cattle fairs
on the 17th of Feb. May, Aug., and Nov. A fine quarry
of black marble has been recently discovered in the
vicinity. Here are the parish church, R. C. chapel, and
national school. It is the estate of Charles Kelly, a
friar, whose ancestors founded Kilconnell Abbey, and
some others in this county.
KILTORNEY.—See KILTOOMY.
KILTRISK, a parish, in the barony of GOREY,
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 6½
miles (S.) from Gorey, on the river Awen-o-varra, and
two miles from the Eastern coast; containing 690
inhabitants. This parish comprises 2971 statute acres,
as applotted under the tithe act, and chiefly under
tillage. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, form-
ing part of the union of Leskinfere and of the corps of
the treasurer ship of Ferns cathedral: the tithes amount
to £126, out of which £23. 1. 6. is paid to the perpe-
tual curate of the recently formed ecclesiastical district
of Glascarrick, which see. In the R. C. divisions it is
part of the union or district of Ballygarret.
KILTRUSTAN, a parish, in the barony and county
of ROSCOMMON, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2¾ miles
(N. N. W.) from Strokestown, on the road to Elphin;
containing 3543 inhabitants. It comprises 4870 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and principally
under an improving system of tillage. There is also a
large quantity of bog, with quarries of excellent lime-
stone, also limestone gravel and marl, and on the lands
of Tubberpatrick some very fine potters’ earth. Lead
ore has been found, but is not worked. The princi-
pal seats are Tubberpatrick, the residence of Mulloy
M c Dermott, Esq.; Cloneen, of Gilbert Hogg, Esq.; and
Cretta Cottage, of Capt. Dillon. It is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Elphin, forming part of the union of Bumlin;
the rectory forms part of the corps of the prebend of Kil-