INISHKEEN

In 1868, the parish of Inishkeen contained the following places:

"INISHKEEN, (or Enniskeen), a parish partly in the baronies of Louth and Upper Dundalk, county Louth, province of Leinster, and partly in the barony of Farney, county Monaghan, province of Ulster, Ireland, 4 miles N. of Louth, and 5 W. of Dundalk, its post town. It is a station on the Irish North-Western railway. The parish is 4½ miles long by 3 broad. The surface consists of a tolerably good soil. It is traversed by the river Fane, and the road from Dundalk to Magheross. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Clogher, value £406, in the patronage of the bishop. The church has an old burial-ground containing a vault dated 1672. The parish has two Roman Catholic chapels, and gives name to a Roman Catholic district. There are a parish and two Sunday schools. Candlefort, Lattaghtagh, and Drumservin, are the chief residences. Here is a police station. There are some remains said to be the ruins of an abbey founded by St. Dagen, also of a peculiar round tower and of a large Danish fort. A well-built stone bridge spans the Fane.

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018