KILLEEN, a parish,in the barony of UPPER-OSSORY,
QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles
(S. W.) from Durrow, on the road from that place to
Kilkenny; containing 632 inhabitants. It is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union
of Aughamacart, with which parish the tithes are returned:
the rectory is impropriate in the Ladies Fitzpatrick.
In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union
or district of Durrow. Here are the ruins of Ballykaly
castle.