KILMACSHALGAN, a parish, in the barony of
TYRERAGH, county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT,
16 miles (W. by S.) from Sligo; containing,
with the post-town of Dromore West, 3330 inhabitants.
It comprises 25,884 statute acres, the greater portion of
which is reelaimable mountain land and bog: the cultivated
part is chiefly under tillage. There are quarries of
limestone, freestone, and slate. The principal seats are
Dromore House, the residence of Capt. J. Fenton; Fare
McFare, of W. Ormsby, Esq.; Belville, of W. Rutledge,
Esq.; and Marino Cottage, of T. Ormsby, Esq. Petty sessions
are held fortnightly on Thursdays at Comcall,
where there is a spa. The living is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Killala, with that of Templeboy episcopally
united, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory
is impropriate in Col. Knox Gore. The tithes
amount to £400, payable in equal parts to the impropriator
and the vicar; and the tithes of the union, to
£410. There is a glebe-house, towards the erection of
which the late Board of First Fruits gave £100 in 1812;
the glebe comprises nine acres. The church is a neat
edifice with a square tower, for the erection of which
the late Board lent £1300, in 1820. The R. C. parish
is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, and
has a large unfinished chapel. About 130 children are
educated in a public and 140 in three private schools.
There are some remains of the old church, with a burialplace
attached; two cromlechs and some forts. See
DROMORE-WEST.