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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
In 1868, the parish of Drumrat contained the following places:"DRUMRAT, a parish in the barony of Corran, in the county of Sligo, province of Connaught, Ireland, 3 miles S. of Ballymote, its post town, on the road to that town from Boyle. Its surface is hilly, and includes much bog. The river Awinmore flows on the N. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Achonry, value with Emlyfadd, £562, in the patronage of the bishop. Here are a Roman Catholic chapel, a National and two hedge schools. St. Fechin is supposed to have founded an abbey here, of which there are yet some traces.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
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