KILLAGHIN, or KILLAHEN, a parish, in the
barony of CLANMAURICE, county of KERRY, and province
of MUNSTER, 5½ miles (N.) from Tralee, on the
road from Abbeydorney to Cashen-ferry; containing
1098 inhabitants. It comprises 4239 statute acres, of
which about one-fourth consists of mountain and bog,
and the remainder of arable land of variable quality.
The principal residence is Fort William, belonging to
the representatives of the late W. Collis, Esq. The
parish is in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe: the rectory
is impropriate in the Earl of Cork, and the vicarage
forms part of the union of Kilflyn, or Ballinacourty;
the tithes amount to £126, of which two-thirds are
payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the
vicar. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union
or district of Abbeydorney. The ruins of the old church
still remain; and about a mile to the west are those of
Ballyrnaquin castle.