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KILLEARY, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-SLANE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. E. by S.) from Nobber, on the road from Navan to Ardee; containing 2343 inhabitants. It comprises 7860 statute acres, and includes Parsonstown, the property of the Rev. A. Blackburne, a handsome residence in a demesne of above 600 statute acres. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Syddan; the rectory is in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop. The tithes amount to £323. 1. 6¼. of which £212. 6.,l¾. is payable to the rector and the remainder to the vicar, who has a glebe of 3a. 2r. I6p. In the R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district called Lobinstown, comprising also the parishes of Syddan, Innismoth, and Mitchellstown, and containing chapels at Lobinstown and Heronstown.

About 30 children are educated in a public and 160 in four private schools.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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The entry for Killary from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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