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KILLEANY, a parish, in the barony of STRADBALLY, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (N.) from Stradbally, on the road from that place to Portarlington; containing 121 inhabitants.  Petty sessions for the district are held here irregularly.  The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £50. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union, or district of Stradbally. There are some remains of the ancient castle.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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