KIRTON, a parish in the hundred of COLNEIS, county of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (E. S.E.) from Ipswich, containing 578 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 13.4., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Maiy. The navigable river Deben runs on the north-east of this parish.