DERRYVULLEN, a parish, chiefly in the barony of LURG,
county of FERMANAGH, and province of ULSTER, but partly
in the barony of TYRKENNEDY, on the road
from Enniskillen to Kesh; containing, with the post-town
of Irvinestown, 10,646 inhabitants. This parish
comprises, according to the Ordnance survey (including
islands and detached portions), 23,645¾ statute acres,
of which 15,070¾ are in the barony of Lurg, 2576¼ acres
are in Lower Lough Erne, and 571 in small loughs. It
is in six detached parts, which are severally on the roads
from Enniskillen to Pettigoe, Lisnaskea, Tempo, Ballynamallard,
and Irvinestown, and from Maguire's-bridge
to Florence-Court: this last portion includes part of
Ennismore island, half of which is in this parish and
the remainder in Cleenish. The land is of middling
quality, and the state of agriculture improving; the
arable land is estimated to comprise 12,000 acres, and
there are 500 acres of bog. The gentlemen's seats are
Castle Archdall, the residence of Gen. Archdall; Rosfad,
of J. Richardson, Esq.; Doraville, of Capt. H.
Irvine; and Riverstown, of C. Archdall, Esq. The
living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Clogher,
and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows
of Trinity College, Dublin: the tithes amount to
£606. 8. 9¾. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of
600 acres. The church is at Irvinestown (which see),
and there is a chapel of ease on the road from Enniskillen
to Lisnaskea. In the R. C. divisions the parish
is partly in the union or district of Enniskillen, and
partly the head of a district, called Whitehill; it contains
three plain chapels at Lisson, Whitehill, and Lissaroe.
The Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists have each a.
place of worship. The parochial school-house was given
by the Earl of Belmore; there are also eight other
schools, in which about 460 boys and 300 girls are educated]
about 270 boys and 140 girls are taught in nine
private schools, and there are five Sunday schools.-
See IRVINESTOWN.