Killesk

KILLESK, a parish, in the barony of SHELBURNE, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 7 miles (S. E.) from New Ross; containing 1009 inhabitants, and 2872 statute acres. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, and patronage of Lord Templemore, granted in 1702, in augmentation of the impropriate curacies of Dunbrody, St. James, and Rathroe: the tithes amount to £312. 7. 4., and there is a glebe of about two acres. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Sutton's. About 30 children are educated in a private school. Here are some remains of a castle, said to have been built by Hervey de Montemarisco. [from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.]

"KILLESK, a parish in the barony of Shelburne, county Wexford, province of Leinster, Ireland, 3 miles N.N.E. of Arthurstown. New Ross is its post town. It is 3 miles long by 2 broad. The surface consists principally of tillage lands. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ferns, value with others, £152. There are a church, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a hedge-school. Bodeevan is the principal residence. Here are the remains of a castle called Monte Marisco's Castle." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]