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Cill Fhéich - Killea

 

A parish, in the barony of RAPHOE, county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from Londonderry, on the road from that place to Letterkenny; containing 930 inhabitants. According to the Ordnance survey, it comprises 1869 statute acres, of which 1792 are applotted under the tithe act and valued at £1285 per ann., and 80 acres are bog. At Carrigans are some large corn-mills: it is a constabulary police station, and has a penny post to Londonderry. Dunmore House is the seat of R. McClintock, Esq. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Raphoe, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £170. The church is a small plain building, for the repairs of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £273. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 40 acres In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Lagan. About 120 children are educated in two public schools, of which the parochial school is supported from Col. Robertson's fund, and there is a Sunday school.

 

(Extract from A Topographical Dictionary Of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837)

 

 

Last Updated 17 Nov 2009

 

 

Births, Marriages and Deaths

• Baptisms

• Births

  • Birth Notices

• Marriages

  • Marriage Notices

• Deaths

  • Death Notices

Census

• 1841/51 Census
  • Census Search Forms/Old Age Pension Applications

• 1901 Census

  • 1901 Census Index

  • 1901 Altaghaderry

  • 1901 Ardnaoghill  

  • 1901 Carrigans Town

  • 1901 Drumnashear  

  • 1901 Dunmore

  • 1901 Glasmullan

  • 1901 Imlick

  • 1901 Legnaduff  

  • 1901 Magheraboy

  • 1901 Magheraboy Glebe  

  • 1901 Newtownhamilton  

  • 1901 Toberslane  

  • 1901 Whitehouse

• 1911 Census

  • 1911 Altaghaderry

  • 1911 Ardnamoghill

  • 1911 Drumnashear

  • 1911 Dunmore

  • 1911 Glasmullan

  • 1911 Legnaduff

  • 1911 Magheraboy

  • 1911 Magheraboy Glebe

  • 1911 Newtownhamilton

  • 1911 Toberslane

  • 1911 Whitehouse

  • Complete 1911 census online at NAI Census Website

Churches

• Roman Catholic
  • Catholic Chapels

Families

• McCallion

Headstone Inscriptions

• Killea Parish Church Graveyard (Carrigans Church of Ireland)

Land

• 1829-31 Applications to Register Freeholds in the Barony of Raphoe new
• 1857 Griffith's Valuation
  • 1857 Griffith's Valuation index
  • 1857 Griffith's Valuation online

Links

• St Johnston and Carrigans Official Website

Maps

• Parish
  • Parish Map & Data  (Bob Hilchey)

Registers

Researchers

• Crockett in Drumnashear \ Killea - Marsha
• McCallion in Altaghderry - Joe
• McCallion in Altaghaderry - Paddy
• McQuilkin in Glasmullan - Sue
• Monoghan in Killea - Loretta
• Nee in Killea - Loretta
• Welsh in Killea - Loretta

Resources

• Resources held on Microfilm with the LDS

 Townlands

Townland	Area
Altaghaderry	557
Ardnaoghill	59
Carrigans	129
CARRIGANS T.	xx
Drumnashear	84
Dunmore	383
Glasmullan	40
Imlick	169
Legnaduff	54
Magheraboy	21
Magheraboy Glebe	34
Newtownhamilton	52
Toberslane	168
Whitehouse	112

 

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