We could not match "KILMESSAN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 12 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "KILMESSAN" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "KILMESSAN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASSEY, or ATHSY	Meath	Kilmessan, who receives £24 per annum, besides the glebe, which consists of three acres, valued at £6 per annum	Lewis:Ireland
  BALSOON	Meath	union or district of Dunsany and Kilmessan, at which latter place is the chapel for this part of the union.	Lewis:Ireland
  BECTIVE	Meath	Kilmessan and Trim. In the R. C. divisions it is included in the union or district of Navan; the chapel	Lewis:Ireland
  DUNSANY	Meath	Kilmessan, Assey, Treebly, Balsoon, and Scurloghstown, in which union or district are chapels at Dunsany and Kilmessan. About 200 children	Lewis:Ireland
  Kilcarty	Meath	Kilcarty , seat, 1½ mile S. of Kilmessan ry. sta., S. co. Mcath.	Bartholomew
  KILLEEN	Meath	acres of good land. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union of Dunsany, or Kilmessan.	Lewis:Ireland
  Kilmessan	Meath	Kilmessan , par. and vil. with ry. sta., mid. co. Meath, 5 miles E. of Trim, 3336 ac., pop. 439; P.O. Market	Bartholomew
  KILMESSAN	Meath	KILMESSAN , a parish, in the barony of LOWER DEECE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (N. W.) from	Lewis:Ireland
  MACETOWN	Meath	Kilmessan: the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Drogheda. The tithes amount to £68, of which £58 is payable	Lewis:Ireland
  SCURLOGSTOWN, or SCURLOCKSTOWN	Meath	union or district of Dunsany and Kilmessan. There are fragments of an ancient church, consisting of two rude circular arches.	Lewis:Ireland
  Tara	Meath	Kilmessan ry. sta. and 6 miles SE. of Navan, 3364 ac., pop. 261; P.O. Tara Hill (507 ft.), where the ancient	Bartholomew
  WARRENSTOWN	Meath	Kilmessan and Navan; containing 13 houses and 97 inhabitants. Fairs are held on Jan. 1st, April 28th, June 27th, and Sept	Lewis:Ireland

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



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