Irish Form of Name:
Cill Aiffín
Translation:
St. Affin’s Church
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Killafeen
Cill Aiffín
Cill a' Fíon
Killafeen By. Surveyors Sketch Map
Killafeen Engraved County Map
Killofin Lord Gort’s Agent Mr. Slator
Killafin Mr. John Bell, By. Constable
Killefine Printed Townland List
Killafean Rev. John Ford, P.P.
Comment:
See Killeffin, Co. Wicklow
Description:
Proprietor James O’Hara, Esq., Mountjoy Square Dublin. Agent Barry O’Hara, Galway. Let to 7 occupying tenants at will at 22s. per acre. County Cess 3s. per acre. Tithes withheld. Quit Rent 2d. per acre. Soil rocky. Usual crops wheat, oats and potatoes. No bog. Tenantry 5 Protestants and 2 Roman Catholics. Prevailing names Hanning and Commons. A School here established in 1836, by the National Board of Education 149 Boys, 49 Girls, 20 Protestants, 169 Catholics. Teacher paid by the Board £16 per annum, a house and one acre of ground. A Police Station here consisting of 1 Constable, and sub Constables. Part of Lough Cooter on the West boundary of townland. Owendallaleagh River on the South and East boundary. Trout and Pike in this Lough and River. a Graveyard called Killafeene. a burying ground for children.
Situation:
In the South West of the parish of Kilbeakanty, Barony of Kiltartan and County Galway, South West of Lough Cooter, East and North of Owendallaleagh River.
Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:
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Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
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