KILDELLIG, or KILDELLYGLY, a parish, in the
barony of UPPER-OSSORY, QUEEN'S county, and province
of LEINSTER, 3¾ miles (S. E. by S.) from Burrosin-
Ossory,on the road from Mountrath to Rathdovvney;
containing 303 inhabitants. It comprises 1103 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is a rectory,
in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of
Rathdowney: the tithes amount to £57. 10. In the
R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of
Aghadoe. About 40 children are educated in a private
school. A religious establishment existed here at an
early period, the last mention of which is in 885, when
the abbot was killed by the Danes.