KILLARGY, a parish, in the barony of DROMAHAIRE,
county of LEITRIM, and province of CONNAUGHT,
4½ miles (S. W. by S.) from Manorhamilton, on the road
to Carrick-on-Shannon; containing 4409 inhabitants, of
which number 110 are in the village. This parish,
including a portion of Lough Clean, or Belhovel Lake,
comprises 13,898 statute acres, of which 10,912 are
applotted under the tithe act. The land is generally
good, and chiefly tinder tillage; the system of agriculture
is improved; there is no waste land, except what
affords either turbary or indifferent grazing, but there is a
large portion of bog; there are some quarries of good
limestone both for building and for agricultural uses.
Fairs for live stock are held at Belhovel on Feb. 2d,
March 25th, Whit-Monday, Aug. 15th, Sept. 8th, and
Dec. 26th. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of
Kilmore, and in the patronage of the Bishop, to whom
the rectory is appropriate: the tithes amount to £60,
of which £40 is payable to the bishop and £20 to the
vicar. The church, towards the erection of which the
late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £1000,
is a neat edifice, built in 1820. The glebe-house, towards
which the same Board, in 1815, gave £100 and
lent £600, is a good residence; and the glebe comprises
288 acres. In the R. C. divisions this parish is
the head of a union or district comprising also part of
the parish of Clonlogher; the chapel is situated in the
village. About 400 children are taught in four public
schools, and there are three private schools, in which
are about 220 children.