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DUNMURRGHILL
DUNMURRGHILL, a parish, in the barony of IKEATHY and OUGHTERANY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 6½ miles (S. W.) from Maynooth; containing 234 inhabitants.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, entirely appropriate to the dean and chapter of the cathedral of St. Bridget: the tithes amount to £18.15. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Maynooth.