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"Killyleagh, a district parish, partly in the barony of TURANEY, and partly in that of ARMAGH, county of ARMAGH, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles (W.) from Armagh, on the road from that place to Caledon; containing 3452 inhabitants. It was formed out of the parishes of Armagh, Tynan, and Derrynoose, under the provisions of the act of the 8th of Geo. IV., cap. 43 ; and comprises 5635 statute acres of very fertile arable and pasture land, which is under an excellent system of cultivation. A great part of the parish and the whole of the village belong to Trinity College, Dublin. ... The principal seats in the parish are Elm Park, the residence of the Earl of Charlemont, which is in a beautifully planted demesne ; Knappah, of J. Johnston, Esq. ; Woodpark, of A. St. George, Esq. ; Fellows-hill, of T. K. Armstrong, Esq. ; and Dartan, of Maxwell Cross, Esq."
[From the Killyleagh segment of Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (1837)]
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- Abbreviations used in these GENUKI County Armagh, and library notes
- AIGS = Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
- FHL = Family History Library (LDS)
- LDS = Latter Day Saints
- NLI = National Library of Ireland
- PRO = National Archives (formerly, the Public Record Office) at Kew, England
- PRONI = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- QUB = Queen's University, Belfast
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St Mark, Killylea, Church of Ireland |
- Protestant householders of the parishes of Derrynoose and Tynan in 1740. Includes a list of Protestant householders in the parishes of Derrynoose and Tynan in 1740 as enumerated in Parliamentary Returns in Record Office Dublin, bundle 75, no. 645. [Source of information: LDS FHL Catalogue online.]
- 1911 Tynan D.E.D. 31/10-30 -- Townlands: Killylea Town, and other townlands. LDS ref. FHL BRITISH Film 1999948
St Mark, Killylea, Church of Ireland |
Main Street, Killylea, Methodist |
- Church of Ireland - Killylea parish [Armagh diocese]
- The Church of Ireland (link is external) - Find a church page
- Parish Church of St Mark, at Killylea -- The Rectory, 154 Killylea Road, Armagh, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland BT60 4LN; Tel: (028) 3756 8320
- Representative Church Body Library
- Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14; Tel: +353 (0)1 4923979
- The Church of Ireland (link is external) - Find a church page
- Methodist Church at Killylea -- Contact information from the Methodist Church in Ireland, Portadown District
- Roman Catholic - Parish of Tynan (Middletown) [Archdiocese of Armagh]
- Killylea is a village in the civil parish of Tynan
- Historically and currently, the R.C. parish of Tynan (Middletown) comprises the civil parish of Tynan
- Church of St John (1826), at Middletown
- Church of St Joseph (1813), at Tynan
- St Louis Convent, at Middletown
- ... Mailing address for St John's and St Joseph's: Parochial House, 290 Monaghan Road, Middletown, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland; Tel: 028 3756 8406
- Modern R.C. pastoral areas are shown on this Pastoral Area Map
- Refer to Parish of Middletown (Tynan) at CatholicIreland.net for a current directory listing
- Henderson, Isobel, St. Mark's Killylea, 1832-1982: a short history of Killylea Parish, its chu... , (St. Mark's Church, Killylea), 1982
- QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p BX5510.K45/HEND
- L'Estrange, Guy W. C., Killylea parish: being an outline of the history of the parish from its foun... , printed at the Rectory Press, Killylea, 1917
- QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p BX5570.D7/LEST
- Church of Ireland - Killylea parish [Armagh diocese]
- Formed out of the parishes of Derrynoose, Tynan and Armagh.
- Baptisms, 1845-1901; burials, 1845-1914. PRONI ref. MIC.1/85
- Baptisms, 1901-; burials, 1914-; marriages, 1846-; vestry minutes, 1829-; preachers' books, 1845-; parish visiting book, 1860-1888; orphan register, 1876-8. In local custody.
- Methodist Church at Killylea
- Baptisms, 1815-. (At Armagh). In local custody.
- Roman Catholic - Parish of Tynan (Middletown) [Archdiocese of Armagh]
- Baptisms, 1822-34, 1838-42 and 1845-84; marriages, 1822-34 and 1845-77. PRONI ref. MIC.1D/40
- Baptisms, 1822-1834; "Removed from Killmore to Tynan : baptisms, 1838-1842; marriages, 1822-1833"; baptisms, 1845-1884; and marriages, 1845-1877. LDS ref. FHL BRITISH Film 979710 Items 6 - 8
- Baptisms, 2 June 1822 - 11 Aug 1834, 12 Aug 1838 - 25 July 1842, 17 May 1845 - 2 Sept 1880; marriages, 6 June 1822 - 26 Oct 1834, 22 June 1845 - 18 Oct 1877. NLI ref. P.5589
- Map of RC parishes in Co Armagh, from John Grenham's Irish Ancestors web site
- Click on the parish of Tynan, to obtain a list of parish registers
- Source for the references, given above:
- Guide to Church Records: An Irish Genealogical Source/Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation on behalf of [the] Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1994.
- John Grenham's Irish Ancestors web site
- LDS FHC Catalogue
- National Library of Ireland (NLI), Lists of Roman Catholic Parish Registers
- The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
- Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
- Lewis, Samuel, Killylea Parish, from Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland [1837]
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Killylea to another place.
You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference H8000245131 (Lat/Lon: 54.348616, -6.770471), Killylea which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Copy
Killylea
and paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland. - GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- IrelandOldNews - an ongoing, volunteer project to transcribe 18th & 19th century Irish newspapers
- Input "Killylea" (and spelling variants) into the "Find" box
- Also try inputting townland and other placenames found in Killylea parish
- Of course, you may also wish to search for your favourite personal and family names!
- Revisit the IrelandOldNews web site periodically, as transcribers update their county pages regularly
- The Belfast Newspaper Index, 1737-1800; compiled by Dr. John C. Greene of Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A.
- Mentions of Killylea in the Belfast Newsletter index
- Armagh Poor Law Union - from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses
- Holdings of documents related to Killylea at the PRONI
- Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive
- "Killylea, near Tynan, Co Armagh -- The documents run from 1829 to 1960 (with many gaps), and include faculties for alterations to the church, 1865?"
- Papers about individual parishes in the Armagh Diocesan Registry archive