LISMULLEN, parish, in the barony of SKRYNE,
county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles
(S. S. E.) from Navan, on the mail road from Dublin to
Enniskillen; containing 107 inhabitants. A house for
Augustinian nuns was founded here in 1240 by Alicia,
sister of Richard de la Corner, bishop of Meath, which
existed until the Reformation: in the reign of Edw.
VI., the buildings and part of the estates were granted to
Thos. Cusack. The parish comprises about 1920 statute
acres of good land, about two-thirds of which are in
tillage; good gritstone is quarried here for building,
and copper is supposed to exist but has not yet been
worked. Here is a station of the constabulary police.
Lismullen Park is the seat of Sir Chas. Drake Dillon.,
Bart., on whose ancestor, John Dillon, and his heirs
male, the dignity of a free baron of the Holy Roman
Empire was conferred by the Emperor Joseph II., in
1782; the demesne which comprises about 200 plantation
acres, contains some fine old timber. It is a
chapelry, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the
union of Skryne: the tithes are included in the composition
for Templecarn. In the R. C. divisions also
it forms part of the union or district of Skryne or
Skreen.