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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"KILMACNEVAN, a parish in the barony of Moygoish, county Westmeath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 9 miles W.N.W. of Mullingar, its post town. The parish is 4 miles long by 2½ broad. The surface consists of a very good soil. The parish is crossed by the Royal canal, and is bordered on the W. by the river Inny. The living is a curacy in the diocese of Meath, value with Leyny, £67, in the patronage of Lady Fetherstone. The Roman Catholic chapel is united to that of Rathconrath. There are two day schools. Collanstown is the principal residence. There are ruins of an old castle.
"EMPER, (or Imper), a hamlet in the parish of Kilmacnevan, barony of Moygoish, county Westmeath, province of Leinster, Ireland, 10 miles N.W. of Mullingar. Here is a castle formerly belonging to the Daltons, and subsequently to the Tuites of Sonna.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868. Copyright Colin Hinson ©2018]