Incumbents.

John Wardlaw, 2 March, 1769, R. Killukin, V. Tumnagh and Crieve, as Archdeacon of Elphin.

Ephraim Monsell, A. M. collated 13th Ap. 1782, Archdeaconry Elphin, R. Killuken, V. Killuken, V. Tumnagh and Creeve united.

Oliver Carey, collated 1 June, 1798, Archdeaconry Elphin, R. & V. Killuken, V's. Tumnagh and Creeve. Wm. Digby, coll. 15 Sept. 1809, Archdeacon Elphin, £2. 13s. R. Killuken, £1. 10s.

XII. Suggestions for Improvement, and Means for meliorating the Condition of the People.

The subjects included under this head are inferences easily deducible from the particulars in the foregoing

sections.

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No. XVIII,

PARISH OF

KILMACAHILL,

(Diocese of Leighlin, and County of Kilkenny.)

BY THE REV. WILLIAM LATTA, VICAR.

I. The Name of the Parish, Situation, Extent, &c. THE present name of this parish is that by which it Situation. has always been designated. It is situated in the baro

Name.

ny of Gowran, and county of Kilkenny, and is of an Boundaries irregular figure, but rather conical. Its base, on the

east and south-east, rests on the parish of Grange Sylvæi on the south and south-west, it is bounded by the parish of Gowran, in the diocese of Ossory; on the west, its summit meets the parish of Tiscoffin, otherwise Frenystown; and on the north-west and north it is bounded by Shankill, in this diocese. Its geographical situation is about 53 degrees north latitude,* and about 7 degrees west longitude. The church is exactly fifty miles in a

❤ The latitude here given, though perhaps tolerably exact, has been taken from Beaufort's Ecclesiastical Map, and not ascertained by ob servation.