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"Kilmore. a parish, and the seat of a diocese, partly in the barony of Clonmahon, but chiefly in that of Upper Loughtee, county of Cavan, and province of Ulster, 84 miles (S. W.) from Cavan, on the road to Killesandra containing, with part of the market-town of Ballinagh (which is separately described), 716 inhabitants. This parish, which derives its name, signifying the "Great Church," from the abbey of Cella Magna, founded here at an early period by St. Columba, comprises, ac-cording to the Ordnance survey, 16,886 statute acres, of which 2154 are in Lough Oughter; and 14,114 are ap-plotted under the tithe act. The soil is various, and the land in some parts under profitable cultivation; there are some quarries of good building stone3 and gold and silver have been found in some parts."[From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (1837)]
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The transcription for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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- Townland of Drumheel
- Sullivan, T. (Ed.), Drumkilly - From Ardkill Mountain to Kilderry Hill, Drumkilly History Committee, 2000, ISBN 0 9539374 0 2
- The Annesley Papers
- Farnham Estates
- Hamilton: Rentals, with observations, 1851, NAI M5571 (1-39)
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Henry Wayland of Kilmore, co. Cavan, Ireland, gent., son of Henry Wayland, deceased. ref. ACC/0076/0873 and ACC/0076/0874 - date: 1724
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- 1630 Muster Roll: Barony of Loughtee
- Snodaigh, P.O. Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995
- Kilmore - 1780, 1782, 1783
- Kilmore Volunteers, Kilmore Company
- Faulkner's Dublin Journal, Sat., 30 Mar. 1765 - Tues., 2 Apr 1765 Deaths. A few Days ago, at Crosdony, in the County of Cavan, Miss Polly REILEY, Daughter of Mr. John REILEY, of said Place.