KILLAGH, or KILLAUGH, also called MOYMENE,
a parish, in the barony of DEMIFORE, county
of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles (W.)
from Oldcastle; containing 2221 inhabitants. It is
situated on Lough Shillin, and comprises 6283 statute
acres, including about 160 of bog, and 50 of plantations.
Crossdrum is the residence of E. Rotherham, Esq. The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, and in the
patronage of the Crown; the tithes amount to
£203. 1. 6¼. The church is a neat edifice, built by aid
of a gift of £500, in 1800, from the late Board of First
Fruits, which in 1814 gave £450, and lent £50 for the
erection of the glebe-house; the glebe comprises 20
acres. In the R. C. divisions the parish is the head of
a union or district, comprising also Kilbride, and containing
a chapel at Moat, in this parish, and one at
Dalysbridge in Kilbride. About 150 children are educated
in two private schools.