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Killea Parish, County Donegal, Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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This file of KILLEA PARISH, COUNTY DONEGAL (LEWIS’ TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF IRELAND 1837) forms part of the vast archive of 3,000+ pages of genealogical records relating to COUNTIESTYRONE, DONEGAL, LONDONDERRY & FERMANAGH provided without charge or subscription by CoTyroneIreland Welcome to the Premier Website & Research Tool for Cos. Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh Genealogy (cotyroneireland.com) A complete list of records pertaining to KILLEA PARISH on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
Carrigans, Killea Parish, Co. Donegal
KILLEA, a parish, in the barony of RAPHOE, county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from Londonderry, on the road from that place to Letterkenny; containing 930 inhabitants. According to the Ordnance survey, it comprises 1,869 statute acres, of which 1,792 are applotted under the tithe act and valued at £1,285 per ann., and 80 acres are bog. At Carrigans are some large corn-mills: it is a constabulary police station, and has a penny post to Londonderry. Dunmore House is the seat of R. Mc Clintock, Esq. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Raphoe, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £170. The church is a small plain building, for the repairs of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £273. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 40 acres In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Lagan. About 120 children are educated in two public schools, of which the parochial school is supported from Col. Robertson’s fund, and there is a Sunday school.
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