School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)the only visible evidence of past history connected with this once Holy Edifice.
The walls which once surrounded the church.are in ruins part of the end wall facing the Fast is still standing. also the remains of a divisional wall which shows that two compartments were once in existence.there. This old' church measures about seventy feet by fourteen feet this old church was formerly one of four parishes which made up the parish of Castletown-Delvin. Revd, Father Eneas Penny parish priest of Killough.was slain at the altar of this his church by the order of Queen Elizabeth. - 1584.Another church in Delvin Parish called Killkenna long since decayed, and latterly deserted as a place of burial, This old church yard Killkenna is situated in a bog. The bog of Bracklyn. The entrance is from the road leading from Delvin to Ballivor, the old Church has been uprooted and cattle roam and transgress on the sacred resting place of the dead. In this old church-yard sleep many members of the "Fetherston Family." This resting place is surrounded by a wall.and asmall entrance by a gate.
- Collector
- Mary K. Lynch
- Gender
- Female
