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Pass of Kilbride

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"KILBRIDE-PILATE, or PACE-KILBRIDE, a parish, in the barony of FARTULLAGH, county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 4-miles (W.) from Kinnegad, on the road from Dublin to Athlone; containing 574 inhabitants, and 5373 statute acres. Here is Gaulstown Park, the splendid seat of Lord Kilmaine, in the grounds of which is a very large larch tree, planted by Dean Swift.

It is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, and forms part of the union of Enniscoffey, or Kilbride-Pilate, in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £100. In the R. C. divisions it is included in the union or district of Fartullagh, or Roch-fort-Bridge, and has a chapel at Milltown."

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of Pass of Kilbride contained the townlands of:
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Land & Property

The entry for Pass of Kilbride from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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