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Templekeeran

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TEMPLE-KIERAN, a parish, in the barony of SKREEN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. E.) from Navan, near the mail-coach road from Dublin to Enniskillen; containing 393 inhabitants.

This parish comprises, with the chapelry of Lismullen, 1957¾ statute acres of good land. It is a chapelry, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Skreen: the tithes, including those of Lismullen, amount to £130. The church is a neat modern structure, erected in 1811 by parochial assessment, and a loan of £461 from the late Board of First Fruits. In the R. C.

divisions also it is part of the union or district of Skreen.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Gazetteers

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

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of Templekeeran contained the townlands of:
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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 Templekeeran from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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