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KILDOLLAGH, or KILDALLOCK, a parish, partly in the barony of UPPER-DUNLUCE, county of ANTRIM, but chiefly in the North-west Liberties. of COLERAINE, county of LONDONDERRY, and province of ULSTER, 2 miles (S. E.) from Coleraine, on the river Bann; containing 982 inhabitants. According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 2006 statute acres, of which 1984 are in Londonderry; the land is fertile and well drained, fenced, and cultivated. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Connor, forming part of the union of Rasharkin.
About 40 children are educated in a private school, and there is a Sunday school. Near the village of Loughans are the ruins of the ancient church; also the foundations of the castle of McQ,uillan, where a sanguinary battle was fought, in 1534, between the rival septs of O'Kane and McQuilIan. Not far distant is a lofty fort, containing a large cave.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
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