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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Kilmessan contained the following places:"KILMESSAN, a parish and post-office village in the barony of Lower Deece, county Meath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 5 miles E. of Trim. The parish is 2 miles square. The surface, which lies partly within the Boyne Valley, consists of a fair soil, and is traversed by the road from Trim to Skreen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Meath, value with another, £316, in the patronage of the crown and the Marquis of Drogheda alternately. There is an old church, also a Roman Catholic chapel united to that of Dunsany, and a day-school in the village. Swanstown is the principal seat."
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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