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KILLENVOY, a parish, in the barony of ATHLONE, county of ROSCOMMON, and province of CONNAUGHT, 10 miles (N. N. W.) from Athlone, on the road from that place to Roscommon; containing 2250 inhabitants. It comprises 5139 statute acres, and contains a small quantity of bog; there is an abundance of excellent limestone. The principal seats are Scregg, the residence of J. E. Kelly, Esq.; Kellybrook, of D. Kelly, Esq.; Churchboro, of E. Kelly, Esq.; and Mount Plunket, of G. Plunket, Esq., a handsome building, situated on Lough Ree. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Elphin, episcopally united to the vicarages of Kilmean, Porterin, Ivernoon or St. John's, and Raharrow, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the rectory is impropriate in the Incorporated Society: the tithes amount to £130, which is equally divided between the impropriators and the vicar; and the tithes of the benefice amount to £227. 2. 9. The church, which is a neat edifice, was built by aid of a loan of £1000 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1822; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £133 for its repair. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 11 acres.
In the R. C. divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of St. John's, and contains a chapel at Culleen. About 50 children are educated in a public school, which is aided by an annual donation from the vicar; and 140 in two private schools; there is also a Sunday-school. Numerous skeletons have been dug up in the parish.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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