KILLEDAN, or KILLEDIN, a parish, in the barony
of GALLEN, county of MAYO, and province of
CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Swinford, on the
road from that place to Ballagh; containing 5741 inhabitants.
Some of the land is very good and well cultivated,
but there are large tracts of bog. A market on
Thursday has been lately established at the village of
Cultymough, or Newtown-Brown. The principal seats
are Ballinamore, the residence of T. Ormsby, Esq.;
Killedan, of F. Taaffe, Esq.; Anna Hill, of Mrs. Scully,
and Oxford, the property of - Twyhee, Esq. It is a
vicarage, in the diocese of Achonry, forming part of the
union of Templemore; the rectory is impropriate in the
representatives of R. Palmer, Esq. The tithes amount
to £411. 11. 4., which is equally divided between the
impropriators and the vicar. The church is a neat
building, erected at Ballinamore by the Ormsby family.
The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of the Established
Church, and has a chapel at Cultymough.
About 120 children are educated in a public school, to
which T. Ormsby, Esq., contributes £14 annually, and
about 540 in four private schools. Here was a friary of
conventual Franciscans, which existed till the Reformation.
There are some remains of the old church.