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In 1868, the parish of Kilcommock contained the following places:"KILCOMMOCK, a parish in the baronies of Moydow, Rathcline, and Shrule, county Longford, province of Leinster, Ireland, containing Keenagh, its post town. It is 6 miles long and 4 broad, and includes part of Lough Bannow. The surface is boggy, and the soil of middling quality. The interior is traversed by the road from Dublin to Strokestown, and by the Royal canal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ardagh, value £437, in the patronage of the bishop. The church was erected in 1837, at the sole cost of the Countess Dowager of Ross. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and Dissenting meeting-house, also several day schools. Mosstown is the principal residence.
"KEENAGH, a village in the parish of Kilcommock, barony of Rathcline, county Longford, Ireland, 4 miles N. of Ballymahon. It has a police station, and petty sessions are held in the village. There are two Roman Catholic chapels and a dispensary."
"KENAGH, (or Kenaught), a village in the parish of Kilcommock, barony of Ratheline, county Longford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 4 miles S.E. of Killashee. There is a dispensary within the Longford Poor-law Union. The principal residence is Mosstown. It gives name to a rivulet which joins the river Camolin near Cloonlara.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018