•  Killiane, County Wexford

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Killiane like this:

KILLIANE, a parish, in the barony of FORTH, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 2 ¾ miles (S. S. E.) from Wexford, on the road from that place to Rosslare; containing 260 inhabitants. It coin-prises 1064 statute acres, which are partly under tillage, but chiefly in pasture: the soil is good, and well cultivated, and there is abundance of limestone and marl. ...

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Killiane Castle, the property of Vigors Harvey, Esq., is on the shore of Wexford haven, of which it commands a pleasing view. The parish is in the diocese of Ferns, and is an impropriate curacy, forming part of the union of Killinick; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth. The tithes amount to £68. 11. 5., of which £17. 10. 4. is payable to the impropriator, and £51. 1. 1. to the curate. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Piercestown. About 40 children are educated in a private school. The church is in ruins, and there are also the remains of a chapel, with a small burial ground attached, near Killiane Castle, supposed to have been the cemetery of its ancient proprietors.

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