•  Annagelliff, County Cavan

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

ANNAGELIFFE, a parish, in the barony of UPPER LOUGHTEE, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 1 mile (N. E. by E.) from Cavan, on the road from that place to Virginia; containing 4341 inhabitants. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 8260 ¼ statute acres, of which 5096 are applotted under the tithe act. ...

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The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore, forming, with that of Urney, the union of Urney and Annageliffe, in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Representatives of Richard, Earl of Westmeath. The tithes amount to £217. 16. 11 ½., of which £62. 2. 2 ½. is payable to the impropriator, and £155. 14. 9. to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Urney, or, as it is more commonly called, Cavan: the chapel is a large building, situated at Stragolla.

There are a parochial school, and a school on the townland of Curlurgan; also four hedge schools.

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