ANNAGH, or BELTURBET, a parish, chiefly in the barony of TULLAGHGARVEY,
county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, but partly in the
barony of LOWER-LOUGHTEE, on the road from Ballyconnell to Cavan; containing,
with the greater part of the market-town and post-town
of Belturbet, 12,269 inhabitants. It comprises,
according to the Ordnance survey, 19,145¼ statute acres,
of which 12,340 are in Tullaghgarvey; about 16,000
are arable and pasture, 2000 are bog and waste, 300
are woodland, and 200 are common: of its entire
area, 14,936 acres are applotted under the tithe act.
The principal seats are Castle Saunderson, the residence
of A. Saunderson, Esq.; Erne Hill, of G. M.
Knipe, Esq.; Clover Hill, of J. Saunderson, Esq.; and
Red Hill, of - White, Esq. The living is a rectory
and vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, and in the
patronage of Lord Farnham: the tithes amount to
£384. 4. 7½. The church is a handsome edifice, for the
repairs and enlargement of which the late Board of First
Fruits granted £2600, in 1812 and 1814; and the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners have recently granted £112
for its further repair. The glebe-house was purchased
by aid of a loan of £844, in 1810, from the same Board;
the glebe comprises 400 acres. In 1813, forty-seven
townlands of he parish were disunited, to form the perpetual
cure of Killoughter. This parish is divided into
the two R. C. districts of Annagh West and Annagh
East, or Killoughter, the former containing a chapel at
Drumalee, and the latter at Red Hill. There are two
places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, one of
which belongs to the Primitive class. A school is supported
by the Trustees of Erasmus Smith's charity; and
there are schools at Drumlaney, Killoughter, and Drumloor;
also an infants' and two other schools, besides
six private pay schools. The ruins of the old church
yet exist. See BELTURBET.