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Kilcooly

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KILCOOLEY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER-NAVAN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 1½ mile (E. by N.) from Trim, on the road from that place to Navan; containing 196 inhabitants. The land is principally under tillage, and there is some good pasturage, also limestone, which is quarried for building. Here is a large flour-mill. Rathnally, the seat of J.Thompson, Esq., is pleasantly situated in a well-planted demesne on the banks of the Boyne.

The parish is in the diocese of Meath; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda, and the vicarage forms part of the union of Trim: the tithes amount to £108, of which £.83. 1. 6½. is payable to the impropriator, and £24. 18. 5½. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Churchtown.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

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Land & Property

Tithe Applotment Books for county Meath and its  parishes are available online on the National Archives of Ireland website.

The entry for Kilcooly from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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