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Recorded forms
Cill na Sí· Irish · main form · validated name
Killashee· English · main form
Place & story
The canal lock and harbour
Northeast of Killashee, the Royal Canal's44th Lock dates to about 1815. Its carefully dressed limestone chamber forms part of a group with Savage Bridge and a lock keeper's house. The canal widens south of the lock to form a harbour. These structures preserve the scale of investment in inland navigation when the canal was being extended towards the Shannon, with local roads and water transport meeting beside the village.[2]
A church on canal-company land
Saint Patrick's Catholic Church is dated 1829. The architectural inventory records that Fr Richard Farrell built it on a site donated by the Royal Canal Company, a direct connection between canal development and village worship. Its relatively simple exterior has pointed windows and a bellcote. Inside, a cast-iron spiral staircase and gallery railings with quatrefoil ornament provide more elaborate detail.[3]
Saint Paul’s limestone tower
West of the village, Saint Paul's Church of Ireland church was built or rebuilt around 1837–40. Its tower has battlements and corner pinnacles, while Tudor-style chimneystacks rise above the nave. Finely worked limestone and surviving iron-framed windows distinguish the building. The surrounding burial grounds contain older memorials, including a legible stone dated 1710, indicating a history of worship and burial that preceded the present church.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Killashee — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Killashee, Longford
Published census settlement populations
215people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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