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KILCOOLEY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER-NAVAN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 1½ mile (E. by N.) from Trim, on the road from that place to Navan; containing 196 inhabitants. The land is principally under tillage, and there is some good pasturage, also limestone, which is quarried for building. Here is a large flour-mill. Rathnally, the seat of J.Thompson, Esq., is pleasantly situated in a well-planted demesne on the banks of the Boyne.
The parish is in the diocese of Meath; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda, and the vicarage forms part of the union of Trim: the tithes amount to £108, of which £.83. 1. 6½. is payable to the impropriator, and £24. 18. 5½. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Churchtown.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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