Kildellig

KILDELLIG, or KILDELLYGLY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER-OSSORY, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 3¾ miles (S. E. by S.) from Burrosin- Ossory,on the road from Mountrath to Rathdovvney; containing 303 inhabitants. It comprises 1103 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Rathdowney: the tithes amount to £57. 10. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Aghadoe. About 40 children are educated in a private school. A religious establishment existed here at an early period, the last mention of which is in 885, when the abbot was killed by the Danes.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.