KILLAGH, a parish, in the barony of DELVIN,
county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
2¾ miles (S.) from Castletown-Delvin, on the road from
that place to Mullingar; containing 264 inhabitants.
It comprises 1291 statute acres, and is principally in
tillage; there is plenty of limestone. Durdistown is the
seat of Theobald Featherstonhaugh, Esq. It is a rectory,
in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union
of Kilcumney; the tithes amount to £40, and there is a
glebe of 18 acres, valued at £20 per annum. In the R. C.
divisions it forms part of the union or district of Castletown-
Delvin. Here are the ruins of the old church.