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Killyleagh Castle. Killyleagh (/ k ɪ l i ˈ l eɪ /; from Irish Cill Ó Laoch, meaning 'church of the descendants of Laoch') [1] [2] is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the A22 road between Belfast and Downpatrick, on the western side of Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,787 people in the 2021 Census.
This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, County Cork, Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the barony, and also where a townland is known by two alternative names.
According to a history of Down and Connor by a Fr. O'Laverty, the parish of Kilmore, in which Crossgar lies, was likely to have been established around 800 AD and was the ecclesiastical centre of this part of County Down. It was thought that the area had seven chapels and these can be reasonably evident by the remains of burial grounds.
Kilmore is a village, civil parish and townland of 149 acres (60 ha) in County Down, Northern Ireland, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Crossgar. It is situated in the historic baronies of Castlereagh Upper and Kinelarty .
Below is a list of places in the civil parish of Killyleagh, in County Down, Northern Ireland. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656-58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Kilmore gives its name to an Irish civil parish which is located mainly in the barony of Upper Loughtee, but partly in the barony of Clanmahon, all in County Cavan in the Province of Ulster. [1] Civil Parishes were used for local taxation purposes and their boundaries are shown on the nineteenth century Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps.
Civil parish of Killyleagh (1 C, 1 P) Civil parish of Kilmore, County Down (3 P) Civil parish of Knockbreda (5 P) L. Civil parish of Lambeg (3 P) S.