KILLYMAN

In 1868, the parish of Killyman contained the following places:

"KILLYMAN, a parish partly in the barony of West O'Neilland, county Armagh, and partly in the barony of Dungannon, county Tyrone, province of Ulster, Ireland, 2 miles S.E. of Dungannon. Moy is its post town. The parish is 5 miles long by 4 broad. The river Blackwater separates the parish into two sections. The Armagh section is flat, that of Tyrone is hilly. The soil is generally of first-rate quality. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Armagh, value £593, in the patronage of the primate. The church was built by aid of a loan from the late Board of First Fruits in 1824. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to that of Clonmore. There are a Wesleyan meeting-house, three Sunday and seven or eight day schools. Church-hill, the demesne of the late Colonel Verner, M.P., is a very conspicuous feature in the landscape. The geological strata of this locality include building stone, limestone, basalt, clay slate, and red sandstone."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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