KINNEGAD, a post-town and district parish, in the
barony of FARBILL, county of WESTMEATH, and province
of LEINSTER, 8¾ miles (E. S. E.) from Mullingar,
and 29½ (W. by N.) from Dublin, on the road to Athlone;
containing 2812 inhabitants, of which number,
670 are in the town. It comprises 115 houses, with a
market-house in the centre, and is a great thoroughfare.
There is a patent for three fairs and a market, but
only one fair is held on the 9th of May. Here is a
constabulary police station, and a dispensary. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Meath, separated
from the parish of Killucan upwards of 50 years
since, and in the patronage of the Incumbent of Killuean:
the curate's income proceeds from £46. 3. from
the rector of Killucan, £17. 16. from Primate Boulter's
fund, and 42 acres of land at £41. 1. per annum, with
the glebe-house and offices. The church is a neat
Gothic edifice, for the rebuilding of which the late
Board of First Fruits, in 1822, granted a loan of £1050.
There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 30 acres, subject
to a rent of £20. In the R. C. divisions it is the
head of a union or district, called also Corralstown,
comprising this parish and part of Clonard, and containing
chapels at Kinnegad, Corralstown, and Clonard.
Here is a school, which cost £169, raised by subscription
and a grant from the lord-lieutenant's school fund,
to which the Earl of Lanesborough contributes £5
annually: about 150 children are educated in this and
another public school, and about 190 in five private
schools.