Mary Ginty was from Killaser Civil Parish.
Killaser, a parish, in the barony of Gallen, in county Mayo, and province of Connaught, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from Foxford, on the River Moy and the road to Swinford; containing 6,581 inhabitants. This parish was the scene of a sanguinary battle between the native septs of the Jordans and the Rowans, at a spot since called Lugnafulla, or "the valley of blood". It comprises 10,000 statue acres, of which about 6, 000 are arable and the remainder principally bog and mountain; the land is of indifferent quality and is in many places covered with rocks of great size; some of the eastern portion is more productive, but agriculture is in a very backward state; there is a large tract of irreclaimable bog. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Achonry, forming part of the union of Templemore; the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of the late Roger Palmer, Esq. The titles amount to L512.0.4., which is equally divided between the impropriator and the vicar, there are two chapels, situated respectively at Calla and Boulebee, both well built and roofed with slate. About 90 children are taught in a public school; and there are five private schools, in which are about 450 children. There are several Danish forts in the western portion of the parish; at Calla is a small lake, in which is an island presenting appearances of fortifications, said to have been inhabited by the sept of the Rowans; at Erbull and are the ruins of an Old Castle; and there are ancient burial places at Killasser, Blackpatch and Calla.
Extracted from A Topographical Dictionary of Mayo, Samuel Lewis, 1837.
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