KILBRIDE, or CASTLECORR, a parish, partly in
the barony of DEMIFORE, county of MEATH, and province
of LEINSTER, but chiefly in the barony of CLONMAHON,
county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, on
the road from Mount-Nugent to Oldcastle; containing,
with the post-town of Mount-Nugent, 4658 inhabitants.
It comprises 8777 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, of which about three-fifths are arable, a tenth
bog, and the remainder pasture: limestone is abundant.
The principal seats are Bobsgrove, the residence of
C. E. J. Nugent, Esq.; Roebuck, of W. Reilly, Esq.;
and Castlecorr; of W. Webb, Esq. The living is a rectory,
in the diocese of Meath, the presentation to which
is in dispute between the Crown and Lord Dunsany:
the tithes amount to £415. 9. 9. The church was built
in 1809, and has been recently repaired, for which the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners granted £157. The glebehouse
is supposed to have been erected before the Reformation;
the glebe comprises 22 acres. In the R. C.
divisions this parish forms part of the union or district
of Killeagh and Kilbride, and has a chapel at Mount-
Nugent. About 70 children are educated in a public
school, for which the house and an acre of land were
given by Mr.Nugent; and about 350 children are
taught in five private schools. See MOUNT-NUGENT.