Kilcooley, Meath

Historical Description

KILCOOLEY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER NAVAN, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 1½ mile (E. by N.) from Trim, on the road from that place to Navan; containing 196 inhabitants. The land is principally under tillage, and there is some good pasturage, also limestone, which is quarried for building. Here is a large flour-mill. Rathnally, the seat of J. Thompson, Esq., is pleasantly situated in a well-planted demesne on the banks of the Boyne. The parish is in the diocese of Meath; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda, and the vicarage forms part of the union of Trim: the tithes amount to £108, of which £.83. 1. 6½. is payable to the impropriator, and £24. 18. 5½. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Churchtown.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kilcooley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1840 by Samuel Lewis (Kilcooley)

Land and Property

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