KILMEEN, a parish, partly in the East Fractions
of the barony of MAGONIHY, county of KERRY, but
chiefly in the barony of DUHALLOW, county of CORK,
and province of MUNSTER, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from
Newmarket, on the river Blackwater, and on the newroad
from Roskeen-bridge to Castleisland; containing
8322 inhabitants. It comprises 32,105 statute acres; as
applotted under the tithe act, about one-fourth of which
is arable land; of the remainder, which consists chiefly
of mountain pasture and bog, a large portion is now
likely to he brought into cultivation, and the state
of agriculture improved, by means of the facilities afforded
by the Government roads recently constructed
through this previously wild and almost impassable
district. A court for the manor of Castle McAuliffe is
occasionally held, in which debts not exceeding 40s. late
currency are recoverable. The principal seat is Woodview,
the residence of J. McCartie, Esq., situated in a
well-planted demesne. A portion of the Crown estate
of Pobble O'Keefe, now in progress of improvement, is
within the limits of the parish. It is in the diocese of
Ardfert and Aghadoe; the rectory is impropriate in the
Earl of Donoughmore, and the vicarage forms part of
the union of Droumtariffe, in the gift of the Bishop.
The tithes, amounting to £740, are payable in equal
portions to the impropriator and the vicar. In the
R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of
Boherbee, which also includes small portions of the parishes
of Droumtariffe and Nohoval-Daly. The chapel
at Boherbee is a spacious modern building: there is
also a chapel at Cushkeem or Cuscian. About 130
children are educated in three private schools. Of the
ancient castle of McAuliffe, once the chief seat of the
sept of that name, the foundations alone can now be
traced. See BOHERBEE and KING-WILLIAM'S-TOWN.