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INNISKEEN, or ENNISKEEN, a parish, partly in the baronies of LOUTH and UPPER-DUNDALK, county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, but chiefly in the barony of FARNEY, county of MONAGHAN, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (N.) from Louth, on the road to Castle-Blayney; containing 3698 inhabitants, According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 619¾ statute aeres, of which 86¼ are in the barony of Louth,1116½ in Upper Dundalk, and 4990 in Farney; 5534 aeres are applottcd under the tithe act. Here in a constabulary police station. The living is a rectory and viearage, in the diocese of Clogher, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £447. 13. 10¼. The glebe-house was erected by aid of a loan of £675 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1821. The ehureh is a neat plain structure with an aneient burial-ground, in which is a vault bearing the date 1672, built by Col. Mac Mahon, a descendant of the eorbes of Clones: the belfry is one of the ancient round towers. In the R. C. divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, including also part of Donaghmoyne, and containing a neat chapel here and one at Drumeatton, ereeted on land given by F. Evans, Esq., of Mountjoy-square, Dublin, who also gave a site adjacent for a school-house. The parochial school, which is a good stone building, was erected at an expense of £200 by subscription and a grant from the Lord-Lieutenant's fund. Here are also two Sunday schools. St. Dagens is said to have founded an abbey or bishoprick here in the beginning of the sixth century, which is not mentioned later than the eleventh century, although some remains of it still exist. Here is an extensive Danish fort.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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The entry for Inishkeen from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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