KILMURRY-ELY

KILMURRY-ELY, a parish, in the barony of CLONLISK, KING'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 2 ½ miles (N. by W.) from Shinrone, on the road from Roscrea to Banagher; containing 1504 inhabitants and 4077 statute acres. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, forming part of the union of Shin-rone: the tithes amount to £238. 15. 4 ¾.

In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Shin-rone, and has a chapel at Brusna. About 50 children are educated in a private school.

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