KILMACNEVIN, a parish, in the barony of MOYGOISH,
county of WESTMEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
8 miles (W. N. W.) from Mullingar, on the road
from that place to Colehill; containing 2604 inhabitants.
It comprises 2406 statute acres, and is almost entirely
under tillage, excepting a large quantity of bog. Limestone
abounds, but of an inferior kind. Here is Conlanstown,
the seat of C. C. Isdell, Esq. The Royal Canal
runs through the parish, and a large cattle fair is held
at Empor on the last day of May. It is a curacy,
in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of
Leney; the rectory is impropriate in Sir J. B. Piers,
Bart. The tithes amount to £130, which is payable to
the irnpropriator. There is a glebe of eight acres. In
the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Miltown, and has a chapel at Empor. About 120
children are educated in a public school, to which Mr.
Tuite allows £10 per annum, besides the school-house
and half an acre of land; and 45 in a private school.
There are remains of the castle of Empor and of an old
fort, also of the church of Kilmacnevin, and of one at
Churchtown, which is the burial-place of the Tuite
family.