KILLANEY, a parish, partly in the barony of
ARDEE, county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER,
but chiefly in the barony of FARNEY, county of MONAGHAN,
and province of ULSTER, 2 miles (E. by S.) from
Carrickmacross, on the road from Carrick to Dundalk;
containing 4S23 inhabitants, of which number 1424 are
in Louth. The rivers Glyde and Ballymackney flow
through this parish; and the Earl of Essex had an
interview, in 1599, at Essexford, with O'Nial, Earl of
Tyrone. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey
(including 167¾ acres in the detached townland of
Essexford, and 106¼ under water), 7127¼statute acres,
of which 1939¼ are in Louth, and 5188 in Monaghan;
5-870 acres are applotted under the tithe act, and
chiefly in tillage, and 500 acres consist of bog. The
principal seats are Moynalty, the residence of T. Mc
Evoy Gartland, Esq., and Ballymackney House, of W.
Daniel, Esq. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in
the diocese of Clogher, and in the patronage of the
Bishop; the tithes amount to £461. 10. 9¼. The
church is a small ancient structure. There is a glebehouse,
with a glebe of 90 acres. In the R. C. divisions
this parish is partly in the union or district of Carrickmacross,
and partly the head of a district, comprising
also three or four townlands in the parish of Louth; it
contains two chapels, one at Corcreagh, belonging to
the Carrickmacross district, and the other in the village
of Killaney. About 270 children are educated in five
private schools, and there is a Sunday school. Here
are the ruins of an ancient church, and of a fortification
on a conical hill, called Mount Killaney.