•  Meelick, County Galway

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

MEELICK, a parish, in the barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2 ¼ miles (S. E.) from Eyrecourt; containing 1643 inhabitants. This parish, which is also called Milick, is situated on the river Shannon, and comprises 3404 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. ...

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O'Madden, dynast of the adjacent country, founded a monastery here for conventual friars on a beautiful site surrounded in winter by the outspreading waters of the Shannon. In 1203, William de Burgo made it a garrison for his troops; and at the dissolution it was granted to Sir John King, who assigned it to the Earl of Clanrickarde. In the village is a station of the constabulary police. It is in the diocese of Clonfert; the rectory is partly appropriate to the see, and partly to the archdeaconry; and the vicarage forms part of the union of Dononaughta. The tithes amount to £97. 16. 11 ¼., of which £27. 13. 10 ¼. is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £33. 4. 7 ½. to the archdeacon, and the remainder to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Eyrecourt; there is a convent of Franciscans, with a chapel attached, which is open to the public.

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