Name: The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland
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Clonee village and Summerseat mansion

Clonee · town · Meath · 1831–1841

The village of Clonee stands on the Ballybough river and the road from Dublin to Navan, in the parish and barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath. In its vicinity are the mansion of Summerseat and several villas. Population in 1841 was 255.

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CLO NEE, a village in the parish and barony of Dunboyne, co. Meath, Leinster. It stands on the fiouth-east margin of the county, on the Ballybough river, and on the road from Dublin to Navan, 3 miles south-south-east of BlackbuU, and 7 miles westnorth-west of Dublin. It has a post-ofTice, and ranks as a post-town. In its vicinity are the mansion of Summerseat and several villas. Area of the village, 10 acres. Pop , in 1831, 217; in 1841, 255. Hou«ies 44.
CLONEEN, or Clony.ve, a parish, 3} miles east by north of Fethard, and partly in the barony of Middlethird, and partly in that of Slieveardagh, co. Tipperary, Munster. Length, southward, 4^ miles; extreme breadth, 3. Area of the Middlethird section, 5,684 acres, 1 rood, 26 perches ; of the Slieveardagh section, 1,858 acres, 3 roods, 10 perches. Pop. of the whole, in 18:31, 2,096; in 1841, 1,959. Houses 282. Pop. of the Middlethird section, in 1831, 1,189; in 1841, 1,459. Houses 213. The land is variously arable and pastoral, and averages in value about iiOn. per plantation acre. The northern district lies low; the central district has a mean basis of about 213 feet, and the southern district is loftily upland. The mountains of Carrickabrook, Slievenaman and Knocknaman rise on the southern boundary, and lift their summits to the altitude of respectively 1,859, 2,364, and 1,(»54 feet above sea-level. An indigenous rivulet which flows northward along the baronial boundary, rises at an elevation of upwards of 1,260 feet.

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Clonegall manor and the Esmond family

Clonegall · town · Carlow

The manor of Clonegall in Co. Carlow was anciently the property of the Esmond family, who alienated it to Lord le Poer of Curraghmore. It has since descended to the Marquis of Waterford family, though the village site lies within the property of the Tottenham family.

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CLONEGALL, a village in the parish of Moyacomb, barony of Upper St. Mnllins, co. Carlovr. Leinster. It occupies a romantic site on the eastern verge of the county, on the river Derry, and on the road from Newtownbarrv to Wicklovr, 3 miles nortbnorth-east of Newtownbarrv, 7 south-south-east of Tullow, and 5Sk Routh by west of Dublin. The village is neatly edificed, and respectably inhabited. It contains the parish-church of Mojracomb, and gives name to a Roman Catholic parish in the united dio. of Kildare and Leighlin. The view from the cemetery is particularly good. The part of Moyacomb which lies within co. Wicklow is usually called done* gall ; and the part of it which lies within co. Wez« ford is occasionall V so called. The manor of Clonegall was anciently the property of the Esmond family; and it was alienated by them to Lord le Poer of Curraghmorc, and has descended to the Murquis of Waterford family. But the site of the village is within the property of the family of Tottenham. Fairs are held on the first Wednesday of Feb., March, May, and Dec, on Ascension-day, and on July 31, Nov. 12 and 22, and Dec. U. Area of the village, 25 acres. Pop., in 1831, 445; in 1841, 431. Houses 70.

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Clonegall village on the river Derry

Clonegall · town · Carlow · 1831–1841

Clonegall occupies a romantic site on the river Derry in Co. Carlow, on the road from Newtownbarry to Wicklow. The village contains the parish church of Moyacomb, and the view from the cemetery is particularly good.

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CLONEGALL, a village in the parish of Moyacomb, barony of Upper St. Mnllins, co. Carlovr. Leinster. It occupies a romantic site on the eastern verge of the county, on the river Derry, and on the road from Newtownbarrv to Wicklovr, 3 miles nortbnorth-east of Newtownbarrv, 7 south-south-east of Tullow, and 5Sk Routh by west of Dublin. The village is neatly edificed, and respectably inhabited. It contains the parish-church of Mojracomb, and gives name to a Roman Catholic parish in the united dio. of Kildare and Leighlin. The view from the cemetery is particularly good. The part of Moyacomb which lies within co. Wicklow is usually called done* gall ; and the part of it which lies within co. Wez« ford is occasionall V so called. The manor of Clonegall was anciently the property of the Esmond family; and it was alienated by them to Lord le Poer of Curraghmorc, and has descended to the Murquis of Waterford family. But the site of the village is within the property of the family of Tottenham. Fairs are held on the first Wednesday of Feb., March, May, and Dec, on Ascension-day, and on July 31, Nov. 12 and 22, and Dec. U. Area of the village, 25 acres. Pop., in 1831, 445; in 1841, 431. Houses 70.

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Clonenagh Bog near Mountrath

Clonenagh · townland · Laois

Clonenagh Bog lies a short distance east by south of Mountrath. While its borders are firm enough for turbary and have been cut away, its central parts consist of fluid peat, springs, and pools.

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CLONENAGH, a bog in the above parish, 1| mile east by south of Mountrath, QuecR's co., Lcinster. Area, 936 English acres. It is nearly sHrrounded by detached rising grounds, or gentle swells of limestone gravel ; and it generally declines to the south-east, and discharges the principal part of its water into the Cloncove rivulet, an affluent of the Nore. Its borders are sufficiently firm for turbary, and have been considerably cut away ; but its central parts consist of fluid peat or cjuagmire, with springs and numerous pools. Its greatest depth is 24 feet ; its average depth 17 feet. Its highest aad lowest points lie respectively 3(>2 and 314 feet above the sea-level of high water. Estimated cost of reclamation, £712 17s. 2d.

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Clones fever hospital and dispensary

Clones · town · Monaghan · 1839–1840

A fever hospital at Clones, the only one in the poor-law union, contained 20 beds and admitted 267 patients in 1839-40, expending £201 12s. 9¼d. The Clones dispensary expended £90 0s. 7¼d. and administered to 2,529 patients in the same period.

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Poor-law Union,'] — The Clones Poor- law union ranks as the 99th, and was declared on Feb. 8, 1840. It comprehends portions of both Monaghan and Fermanagh counties, jointly possessing an area of 1 1 1 square miles, or 71«5(>6 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 36,569. The electoral divisions, with their respective pop., in I83I, are, — in Monaghan, Clones, 6,822,— St. Tiemey, 4,372,— Newbliss, 3,844.— and Currim, 3,438; in Monaghan and Fermanagh, DrumuUy, 4,559; and in Fermanagh, Newtown-Butler, 4,705,— Aghadrumsee, 3,874,— and Rosslea, 4,955. The number of ex-officio guardians is 6, and of elected guardians, 18; and of the latter, 3 are chosen by the division of Clones, 3 by the division of Newtown- Butler, and 2 by each of the other divisions. The nett annual value of the property rated is £55,298 15s. 5d. ; the total number of persons rated is 6,351 ; and of these, 587 are rated for a valuation not exceeding £1. — ^726, not exceeding £2,-586, not exceeding £3, — 501, not exceeding £4, — and 556, not exceeding £5. The workhouse was contracted for on Oct. 9, 1840,— to be completed in May, 1842. — to cost £5,750 for building and completion, and £1,207 12s. 6d. for fittings and contingencies, — to occupy an area of 6 acres, purchased for £342 7s. 6<I., — and to contain accommodation for 600 persons. The total expenditure of the union up to Feb. 6, 1843, was £6-28 lOs. 6^d. ; and the workhouse was soon afterwards opened for the admission of paupers. The dispensary districts are well divided; they appear to be co-extensive with the union, and to contain fair provision for its wants ; and they are 4 in number, and have their seats at Clones. Newbliss, Rosslea, and Newtown-Butler. In 1839-40, the Clones dispensary expended £90 Os. 7^d., and administered to 2,529 patients. A fever hospital at Clones, the only one m the union, contains 20 beds; and, in 1839-40, it admitted 267 patients, and expended £201 12s. 9Jd. The county infirmaries arc partially, yet inadequately, available for the two ^reat sections of the union. In 1840, a Loan Fund m the town had a capital of £1,682, circulated £4,669 in 1,500 loans, and realized £5 ds. 9d. of

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Clones market-cross with antique steps and pillar

Clones · town · Monaghan

The triangular market-place in Clones has at its centre a market-cross consisting of a flight of steps of very antique appearance, a pillar about 10 feet high and 18 inches in diameter, and curious ornamental stones atop the pillar. It stands as a notable monument in the town.

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General Description.'] — The immediate environs of thf town possess an excellent limestone soil, are well riilfivated, and have an interesting appearance. The roads which communicate with it have lonp been in prood repair ; and that to Monaghan i^ piirticularly good and level, and traverses a rich and very populou«* country. The town itself, though odilired to a l.ir^'c proportion with thatched houses, appears tidy, prosperous, comparatively regular, and, in a certain degree, burghal and imposing. Improvements in its masonry were long ago commenced; and, in 1801, nearly one whole range of hou'ies, all recently-erected single hou«es, and the market-hou-e, boasted slate-roofing. The site of the principal street along the gentle gradient of a rising ground, to the open market-place on the summit ot the eminence, aids the scenic effect of the town, both as seen from the foot and the bead of the n-cent, and as seen from the highway along the low grounfl to the east in the direction of Monaghan. The market-place is a triangular area, with a marketcross in its centre, and some public buildings on its side's. The market-cross consists of a flight of steps of very anti(jue appearance, a pillar about 10 feet high and 18 inches in diameter, and very curiou:) ornamerital stones on the top of the pillar. The <hiet nioilern publje buildings in the town are the pari«.h-chureh. a Roman Catholic chapel, two Metho- <list nie<'ting-hoMses, and the market-housC ; and in the virinity are the Presbyterian meeting-houses.

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Clones Poor-law Union and workhouse established

Clones · town · Monaghan · 1840–1843

The Clones Poor-law union was declared on 8 February 1840, covering portions of Monaghan and Fermanagh with a population of 36,569 in 1831. The workhouse was contracted for on 9 October 1840, to accommodate 600 persons, and was opened for admission of paupers shortly after February 1843.

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Poor-law Union,'] — The Clones Poor- law union ranks as the 99th, and was declared on Feb. 8, 1840. It comprehends portions of both Monaghan and Fermanagh counties, jointly possessing an area of 1 1 1 square miles, or 71«5(>6 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 36,569. The electoral divisions, with their respective pop., in I83I, are, — in Monaghan, Clones, 6,822,— St. Tiemey, 4,372,— Newbliss, 3,844.— and Currim, 3,438; in Monaghan and Fermanagh, DrumuUy, 4,559; and in Fermanagh, Newtown-Butler, 4,705,— Aghadrumsee, 3,874,— and Rosslea, 4,955. The number of ex-officio guardians is 6, and of elected guardians, 18; and of the latter, 3 are chosen by the division of Clones, 3 by the division of Newtown- Butler, and 2 by each of the other divisions. The nett annual value of the property rated is £55,298 15s. 5d. ; the total number of persons rated is 6,351 ; and of these, 587 are rated for a valuation not exceeding £1. — ^726, not exceeding £2,-586, not exceeding £3, — 501, not exceeding £4, — and 556, not exceeding £5. The workhouse was contracted for on Oct. 9, 1840,— to be completed in May, 1842. — to cost £5,750 for building and completion, and £1,207 12s. 6d. for fittings and contingencies, — to occupy an area of 6 acres, purchased for £342 7s. 6<I., — and to contain accommodation for 600 persons. The total expenditure of the union up to Feb. 6, 1843, was £6-28 lOs. 6^d. ; and the workhouse was soon afterwards opened for the admission of paupers. The dispensary districts are well divided; they appear to be co-extensive with the union, and to contain fair provision for its wants ; and they are 4 in number, and have their seats at Clones. Newbliss, Rosslea, and Newtown-Butler. In 1839-40, the Clones dispensary expended £90 Os. 7^d., and administered to 2,529 patients. A fever hospital at Clones, the only one m the union, contains 20 beds; and, in 1839-40, it admitted 267 patients, and expended £201 12s. 9Jd. The county infirmaries arc partially, yet inadequately, available for the two ^reat sections of the union. In 1840, a Loan Fund m the town had a capital of £1,682, circulated £4,669 in 1,500 loans, and realized £5 ds. 9d. of

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Clonfeacle: Church of the Tooth and St. Lugad

near Clonfeacle · parish · Tyrone · 580

The parish of Clonfeacle derives its original name Cluain-Fiacul, meaning 'the Church of the Tooth,' from the tradition that a tooth of St. Patrick was long preserved in its church as a saintly relic. St. Lugad (Lugaid), son of Tailchan, described as 'a very aged man in the year 580,' was traditionally regarded as abbot of Cluain-Fiacul.

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opulence. Immediately on the river Black water, in particular, are a few pleasant close landscapes. Most of the land is of a good arable quality. The Ulster Canal passes through the interior; and 127 acres, 1 rood, 10 perches of the parochial area are water, chiefly in small lakes. The original or uiicorrupted name of the parish was Cluain-Fiacul, *the Church of the Tooth,* and is said to have been derived from the circumstance of an alleged tooth of St. Patrick being long preserved in its church as a saintly relic. St. Lugad, or Lugaid, the son of Tailchan, who was **a very aged man in the year 580," is pretended to have been ** abbot of Cluain- Fiacul." The village of Clonfeacle has an area of 9 acres. Pop., in 1841, 123. Houses 25.— This parish is a rectorv, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Armagh. Tithe composition, £1,0.')0; glebe, £537 \0*. Gross income, £1,567 19^.; nett, £1,330 9s. lOd. Patron, Trinity College, Dublin. A curate has a stipend of £75. The chuich is situated at Benburb; and is supposed to have been built about 155 years ago. Sittings 400; attendance, about 200. A Presbyterian meeting-house is attended by 300 in summer; a Wesleyan meetinghouse, by about 30 ; and a Roman Catholic chapel, by 1,100 at one service and 300 at another; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, the last is united to the Roman Catholic chapel of Moy. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 1,821 Churchmen, 1,178 Presbyterians, 99 other Protestant dissenters, and 4,867 Roman Catholics ; 2 Sunday schools were attended b^ from 50 to 60 children ; 5 daily schools — 3 of which were aided respectively with £5 from Lord Roden, £10 from the National Board, and a graduated allowance from the London Hibernian Society — had on their books 155 boys and 83 girls ; and 2 other daily schools were attended in summer by from 65 to 80 children.

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Clonfert abbey and St. Brendan's burial site

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway · 553–1270

An extinct abbey at Clonfert is claimed to have been founded by St. Brendan, who was interred there. The site of the abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, though the author suggests both church and monastery likely date no earlier than 1270.

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chief hamlet is Parkmadden. Clonfert proper, though it continued till the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, to be in the strictest sense the seat of a bishophric, is the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city. It« site is a swell or very gentle rising ground on the edge of a great expause of dreary bog; and, being shaded on other sides by some wood, it may properly enough be called wiurt the name Clonfert is believed to mean— **a place of retirement." But as "a city." it comprises simply two or three scattered private houses, the paUuDe, the cathedral, and the ruins of an old church ; and, as if ashamed of its absurd pretentions to an urban name, it stands a little way aside from the public road, and may very easily escape the notice of the uninformed passing traveller. Its two or three private houses are mere cabins ; its palace is an ordinary-looking country mansion, erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, and situated in the midst of a rather shabby demesne; its cathedral is a small dingy unimposing structure, in the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of Henry II.; and its ruined quondam church pretends — very abaurdly, we think — to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan, and is said to have been faniout for it4 seven altars, and to have been decorated in 1270 by an exquisitely carved western front, erected by John Bishop of Clonfert, who was an Italian and the nuncio of the Pope, and afterwards beeame archbishop of Benevento. An extinct abbey also daiou to have been founded by St. Brendan ; but the pro; bability is, that both the old church and the mooas^ tic pile dated no higher than 1270. '* St. Brendan, the son of Finloga," says the credulous Archdall, ** studied under St. Finian in the Academy of Clonard, and a. d. 553 or 562, he founded an abbey here under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. St. Brendan was the founder of many other abbeys, and is said to have presided over '3,000 monks, each of whom did industriously earn a sufficiency for bis support. This saint instit-uted a particular form or rule for the observance of his successors, who, in the course of time, followed that of St. Augustine." Other accounts, of equally doubtful character, add, that St. Brendan died on the 16th of May, 577« in the iUth year of his age— that he was interred at Clonfert,-lthat the site of this abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, — that his successor in the abbacy, Moena, the Comorban, was the founder of the bishopric, — and that the riches of Clonfert frequently provoked the cupidity, and occasioned ravaging inroads, of the plundenng Danes. Fain are held on May 12, Aug. 12, and Nov. 22.— The parish of Clonfert is a vicarage, in the dio. of Clonfert. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 84d.; glebe, £50. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £253 IGs. 1 Ud., and are apportioned among the diocesan, the dean, the prebendaries (yf Fenore, Anacalla, Kilconnel, and Kilteskill, and the sacrist of the cathedral. The vicarage of Clonfert, and the rectories of Clontuskert, and Kilna,b&onoocb [!<ee thc<e articles], constitute the benefice of Ckmfert. Kilnabronogue is detached from the other two parishes by the intervention of Fuhy and Dononaughta. Length of the union, 13 miles; breadth, 8. Pop., in 1831, 10,896. Gross income, £437 3s. 9d. ; nett, £341 5s. 4^d. Patron, the diocesan. Theincnmbent holds aUo the united benefices of Tynagh aad Doneira in this diocese, the archdeaconry of Clonfert, and the prebend of Castropetre, in Kildare. One curate for Clonfert parish, and another for dootuskert, have each a stipend of £75; and the latter hiis also the use of the glebe-house and garden. Clonfert church is simply the cathedral. Sittii^ 1 .X) ; attendance 80. There is a church also in diM-

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Clonfert and Kilmore bogs landscape

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway

Two nearly continuous bogs on the north-east border of the barony of Longford in County Galway, bounded by the Suck and the Shannon, traversed by the Grand Canal. They were exceedingly wet and spongy with an average depth of 30 feet, descending in places 10 feet below the surface-water level of the Shannon.

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CLONFERT and KILMORE, two nearly continuous bogs on the north-east border of the barony of Longford, co. Galway, Connaught. They are bounded on the north-east side by the Suck ; on the south-east end bv the Shannon ; and on the other side and end by toe ridgy ground, a line of low hills, which extends from Ballinasloe, by Aughrim, Ballymannagh, Kilmore, and Redmount, to the Shannon. Length, north-north- westward, 7 miles; breadth, from 1 mile to 1} ; area, 9,G15 English acres. They are mutually separated by a very narrow peninsula which runs down to the Suck from Clonfert ; they <*ontain no gravel hills or islands ; they are exceedingly wet and spongy ; they have an overage depth of :iO feet, and descend in many places 10 feet beneath the level of the surface-water of the Shannon; yet they so incline to the streams as to be easily capable of drainage. The Grand Caiuil traversesi them ; aiul reveals to the eye of a passenger a series of close views which vie with one another as emblems of a boggy chaos. Estimated cost of reclamation, £12,987 13s. 2d.
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Clonfert as a derelict 'city' on the bog edge

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway

Clonfert, though nominally the seat of a bishopric, is described as the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city, comprising only a few scattered cabins, the palace, cathedral, and ruined church, standing aside from the public road on a gentle rise beside dreary bog.

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chief hamlet is Parkmadden. Clonfert proper, though it continued till the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, to be in the strictest sense the seat of a bishophric, is the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city. It« site is a swell or very gentle rising ground on the edge of a great expause of dreary bog; and, being shaded on other sides by some wood, it may properly enough be called wiurt the name Clonfert is believed to mean— **a place of retirement." But as "a city." it comprises simply two or three scattered private houses, the paUuDe, the cathedral, and the ruins of an old church ; and, as if ashamed of its absurd pretentions to an urban name, it stands a little way aside from the public road, and may very easily escape the notice of the uninformed passing traveller. Its two or three private houses are mere cabins ; its palace is an ordinary-looking country mansion, erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, and situated in the midst of a rather shabby demesne; its cathedral is a small dingy unimposing structure, in the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of Henry II.; and its ruined quondam church pretends — very abaurdly, we think — to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan, and is said to have been faniout for it4 seven altars, and to have been decorated in 1270 by an exquisitely carved western front, erected by John Bishop of Clonfert, who was an Italian and the nuncio of the Pope, and afterwards beeame archbishop of Benevento. An extinct abbey also daiou to have been founded by St. Brendan ; but the pro; bability is, that both the old church and the mooas^ tic pile dated no higher than 1270. '* St. Brendan, the son of Finloga," says the credulous Archdall, ** studied under St. Finian in the Academy of Clonard, and a. d. 553 or 562, he founded an abbey here under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. St. Brendan was the founder of many other abbeys, and is said to have presided over '3,000 monks, each of whom did industriously earn a sufficiency for bis support. This saint instit-uted a particular form or rule for the observance of his successors, who, in the course of time, followed that of St. Augustine." Other accounts, of equally doubtful character, add, that St. Brendan died on the 16th of May, 577« in the iUth year of his age— that he was interred at Clonfert,-lthat the site of this abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, — that his successor in the abbacy, Moena, the Comorban, was the founder of the bishopric, — and that the riches of Clonfert frequently provoked the cupidity, and occasioned ravaging inroads, of the plundenng Danes. Fain are held on May 12, Aug. 12, and Nov. 22.— The parish of Clonfert is a vicarage, in the dio. of Clonfert. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 84d.; glebe, £50. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £253 IGs. 1 Ud., and are apportioned among the diocesan, the dean, the prebendaries (yf Fenore, Anacalla, Kilconnel, and Kilteskill, and the sacrist of the cathedral. The vicarage of Clonfert, and the rectories of Clontuskert, and Kilna,b&onoocb [!<ee thc<e articles], constitute the benefice of Ckmfert. Kilnabronogue is detached from the other two parishes by the intervention of Fuhy and Dononaughta. Length of the union, 13 miles; breadth, 8. Pop., in 1831, 10,896. Gross income, £437 3s. 9d. ; nett, £341 5s. 4^d. Patron, the diocesan. Theincnmbent holds aUo the united benefices of Tynagh aad Doneira in this diocese, the archdeaconry of Clonfert, and the prebend of Castropetre, in Kildare. One curate for Clonfert parish, and another for dootuskert, have each a stipend of £75; and the latter hiis also the use of the glebe-house and garden. Clonfert church is simply the cathedral. Sittii^ 1 .X) ; attendance 80. There is a church also in diM-

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Clonfert cathedral in Henry II style

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway

Clonfert's cathedral is a small, dingy, unimposing structure built in the style of architecture that prevailed during the reign of Henry II. It serves as the parochial church with seating for 1,500 and attendance of about 80.

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chief hamlet is Parkmadden. Clonfert proper, though it continued till the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, to be in the strictest sense the seat of a bishophric, is the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city. It« site is a swell or very gentle rising ground on the edge of a great expause of dreary bog; and, being shaded on other sides by some wood, it may properly enough be called wiurt the name Clonfert is believed to mean— **a place of retirement." But as "a city." it comprises simply two or three scattered private houses, the paUuDe, the cathedral, and the ruins of an old church ; and, as if ashamed of its absurd pretentions to an urban name, it stands a little way aside from the public road, and may very easily escape the notice of the uninformed passing traveller. Its two or three private houses are mere cabins ; its palace is an ordinary-looking country mansion, erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, and situated in the midst of a rather shabby demesne; its cathedral is a small dingy unimposing structure, in the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of Henry II.; and its ruined quondam church pretends — very abaurdly, we think — to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan, and is said to have been faniout for it4 seven altars, and to have been decorated in 1270 by an exquisitely carved western front, erected by John Bishop of Clonfert, who was an Italian and the nuncio of the Pope, and afterwards beeame archbishop of Benevento. An extinct abbey also daiou to have been founded by St. Brendan ; but the pro; bability is, that both the old church and the mooas^ tic pile dated no higher than 1270. '* St. Brendan, the son of Finloga," says the credulous Archdall, ** studied under St. Finian in the Academy of Clonard, and a. d. 553 or 562, he founded an abbey here under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. St. Brendan was the founder of many other abbeys, and is said to have presided over '3,000 monks, each of whom did industriously earn a sufficiency for bis support. This saint instit-uted a particular form or rule for the observance of his successors, who, in the course of time, followed that of St. Augustine." Other accounts, of equally doubtful character, add, that St. Brendan died on the 16th of May, 577« in the iUth year of his age— that he was interred at Clonfert,-lthat the site of this abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, — that his successor in the abbacy, Moena, the Comorban, was the founder of the bishopric, — and that the riches of Clonfert frequently provoked the cupidity, and occasioned ravaging inroads, of the plundenng Danes. Fain are held on May 12, Aug. 12, and Nov. 22.— The parish of Clonfert is a vicarage, in the dio. of Clonfert. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 84d.; glebe, £50. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £253 IGs. 1 Ud., and are apportioned among the diocesan, the dean, the prebendaries (yf Fenore, Anacalla, Kilconnel, and Kilteskill, and the sacrist of the cathedral. The vicarage of Clonfert, and the rectories of Clontuskert, and Kilna,b&onoocb [!<ee thc<e articles], constitute the benefice of Ckmfert. Kilnabronogue is detached from the other two parishes by the intervention of Fuhy and Dononaughta. Length of the union, 13 miles; breadth, 8. Pop., in 1831, 10,896. Gross income, £437 3s. 9d. ; nett, £341 5s. 4^d. Patron, the diocesan. Theincnmbent holds aUo the united benefices of Tynagh aad Doneira in this diocese, the archdeaconry of Clonfert, and the prebend of Castropetre, in Kildare. One curate for Clonfert parish, and another for dootuskert, have each a stipend of £75; and the latter hiis also the use of the glebe-house and garden. Clonfert church is simply the cathedral. Sittii^ 1 .X) ; attendance 80. There is a church also in diM-

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Clonfert palace built by Bishop Dawson in 1640

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway · 1640

The palace at Clonfert is an ordinary-looking country mansion erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, situated in a rather shabby demesne. It served as the bishop's residence until the Church Temporalities Act.

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chief hamlet is Parkmadden. Clonfert proper, though it continued till the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, to be in the strictest sense the seat of a bishophric, is the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city. It« site is a swell or very gentle rising ground on the edge of a great expause of dreary bog; and, being shaded on other sides by some wood, it may properly enough be called wiurt the name Clonfert is believed to mean— **a place of retirement." But as "a city." it comprises simply two or three scattered private houses, the paUuDe, the cathedral, and the ruins of an old church ; and, as if ashamed of its absurd pretentions to an urban name, it stands a little way aside from the public road, and may very easily escape the notice of the uninformed passing traveller. Its two or three private houses are mere cabins ; its palace is an ordinary-looking country mansion, erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, and situated in the midst of a rather shabby demesne; its cathedral is a small dingy unimposing structure, in the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of Henry II.; and its ruined quondam church pretends — very abaurdly, we think — to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan, and is said to have been faniout for it4 seven altars, and to have been decorated in 1270 by an exquisitely carved western front, erected by John Bishop of Clonfert, who was an Italian and the nuncio of the Pope, and afterwards beeame archbishop of Benevento. An extinct abbey also daiou to have been founded by St. Brendan ; but the pro; bability is, that both the old church and the mooas^ tic pile dated no higher than 1270. '* St. Brendan, the son of Finloga," says the credulous Archdall, ** studied under St. Finian in the Academy of Clonard, and a. d. 553 or 562, he founded an abbey here under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. St. Brendan was the founder of many other abbeys, and is said to have presided over '3,000 monks, each of whom did industriously earn a sufficiency for bis support. This saint instit-uted a particular form or rule for the observance of his successors, who, in the course of time, followed that of St. Augustine." Other accounts, of equally doubtful character, add, that St. Brendan died on the 16th of May, 577« in the iUth year of his age— that he was interred at Clonfert,-lthat the site of this abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, — that his successor in the abbacy, Moena, the Comorban, was the founder of the bishopric, — and that the riches of Clonfert frequently provoked the cupidity, and occasioned ravaging inroads, of the plundenng Danes. Fain are held on May 12, Aug. 12, and Nov. 22.— The parish of Clonfert is a vicarage, in the dio. of Clonfert. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 84d.; glebe, £50. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £253 IGs. 1 Ud., and are apportioned among the diocesan, the dean, the prebendaries (yf Fenore, Anacalla, Kilconnel, and Kilteskill, and the sacrist of the cathedral. The vicarage of Clonfert, and the rectories of Clontuskert, and Kilna,b&onoocb [!<ee thc<e articles], constitute the benefice of Ckmfert. Kilnabronogue is detached from the other two parishes by the intervention of Fuhy and Dononaughta. Length of the union, 13 miles; breadth, 8. Pop., in 1831, 10,896. Gross income, £437 3s. 9d. ; nett, £341 5s. 4^d. Patron, the diocesan. Theincnmbent holds aUo the united benefices of Tynagh aad Doneira in this diocese, the archdeaconry of Clonfert, and the prebend of Castropetre, in Kildare. One curate for Clonfert parish, and another for dootuskert, have each a stipend of £75; and the latter hiis also the use of the glebe-house and garden. Clonfert church is simply the cathedral. Sittii^ 1 .X) ; attendance 80. There is a church also in diM-

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Clonfert ruined church claimed founded by St. Brendan

Clonfert (Butson) · townland · Galway · 550–1270

The ruined old church at Clonfert is claimed to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan and was famous for its seven altars. It was decorated in 1270 with an exquisitely carved western front by John, Bishop of Clonfert, an Italian and papal nuncio.

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chief hamlet is Parkmadden. Clonfert proper, though it continued till the passing of the Church Temporalities Act, to be in the strictest sense the seat of a bishophric, is the most thorough satire upon the idea of a city. It« site is a swell or very gentle rising ground on the edge of a great expause of dreary bog; and, being shaded on other sides by some wood, it may properly enough be called wiurt the name Clonfert is believed to mean— **a place of retirement." But as "a city." it comprises simply two or three scattered private houses, the paUuDe, the cathedral, and the ruins of an old church ; and, as if ashamed of its absurd pretentions to an urban name, it stands a little way aside from the public road, and may very easily escape the notice of the uninformed passing traveller. Its two or three private houses are mere cabins ; its palace is an ordinary-looking country mansion, erected in 1640 by Bishop Dawson, and situated in the midst of a rather shabby demesne; its cathedral is a small dingy unimposing structure, in the style of architecture which prevailed in the reign of Henry II.; and its ruined quondam church pretends — very abaurdly, we think — to have been founded in the 6th century by St. Brendan, and is said to have been faniout for it4 seven altars, and to have been decorated in 1270 by an exquisitely carved western front, erected by John Bishop of Clonfert, who was an Italian and the nuncio of the Pope, and afterwards beeame archbishop of Benevento. An extinct abbey also daiou to have been founded by St. Brendan ; but the pro; bability is, that both the old church and the mooas^ tic pile dated no higher than 1270. '* St. Brendan, the son of Finloga," says the credulous Archdall, ** studied under St. Finian in the Academy of Clonard, and a. d. 553 or 562, he founded an abbey here under the invocation of the Virgin Mary. St. Brendan was the founder of many other abbeys, and is said to have presided over '3,000 monks, each of whom did industriously earn a sufficiency for bis support. This saint instit-uted a particular form or rule for the observance of his successors, who, in the course of time, followed that of St. Augustine." Other accounts, of equally doubtful character, add, that St. Brendan died on the 16th of May, 577« in the iUth year of his age— that he was interred at Clonfert,-lthat the site of this abbey and his grave was called the Valley of Miracles, — that his successor in the abbacy, Moena, the Comorban, was the founder of the bishopric, — and that the riches of Clonfert frequently provoked the cupidity, and occasioned ravaging inroads, of the plundenng Danes. Fain are held on May 12, Aug. 12, and Nov. 22.— The parish of Clonfert is a vicarage, in the dio. of Clonfert. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 84d.; glebe, £50. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £253 IGs. 1 Ud., and are apportioned among the diocesan, the dean, the prebendaries (yf Fenore, Anacalla, Kilconnel, and Kilteskill, and the sacrist of the cathedral. The vicarage of Clonfert, and the rectories of Clontuskert, and Kilna,b&onoocb [!<ee thc<e articles], constitute the benefice of Ckmfert. Kilnabronogue is detached from the other two parishes by the intervention of Fuhy and Dononaughta. Length of the union, 13 miles; breadth, 8. Pop., in 1831, 10,896. Gross income, £437 3s. 9d. ; nett, £341 5s. 4^d. Patron, the diocesan. Theincnmbent holds aUo the united benefices of Tynagh aad Doneira in this diocese, the archdeaconry of Clonfert, and the prebend of Castropetre, in Kildare. One curate for Clonfert parish, and another for dootuskert, have each a stipend of £75; and the latter hiis also the use of the glebe-house and garden. Clonfert church is simply the cathedral. Sittii^ 1 .X) ; attendance 80. There is a church also in diM-

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Clongeen parish and its principal seats

Clongeen · townland · Wexford

Clongeen parish in Co. Wexford declines southward and is drained by the Owenduff river. Its principal seats are Abbeyville, Longate, and Brianstown, with villages at Fook's-Mills and Clongeen.

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CLONGEEN, a parish in the west side of the barony of West Shelmalior, 5 miles south-west by west of Taghmon, co. Wexford, Leinster. Length, southward, 4 miles ; extreme breadth, 2 ; area, 5,379 acres, 1 rood, 36 perches ; — but a district of 974 acre-, 3 roods, 12 perches, lies detached nearly a mile to the north-we^t. Pop., in laOl, 1,6()8; in 1841, 1,955. Houses 344. The surface declines to the south, and is drained along the west boundary by the Owendutf river, and traversed through the interior by the road from Taghmon to Dunbrody. The highest ground lies a little north of the centre, and has an altitude above sea-level of 253 feet. The principal seats are Abbey ville, Longate, and Brianstown. The villages are Fook's- Mills and Clongeen. See Fook's- MiLLB. Area of Clongeen village, 27 acres. Pop., in 1831, 148; in 1841, 154. Houses 30._This parish is an impropriate curacy, and part of the Tintern cluster of impropriate curacies, in the dio. of Ferns. See Tintern, Owenduff, and Horetown. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 1,000; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapels of Tintern and Owenduff. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 71, and the Roman Catholics to 1,702; and two hedge-schools were attended on the average by 77 children.
CLONGESII, or Ci.onc.ish, a parish on the west border of the barony and co. of Longford, 2} miles north-north-west of the town of Longford, Leinster. It contains the town of Newtown- Forbes : which see. Length, south-south-westward, Qi miles ; breadth, from 5 furlongs to 4^ miles; area, 12,832 acres, 2 roods, 14 perches,— of which 296 acres, I rood, 36 perches, are in the Shannon and Lough Forbes. Pop., in 1831, 6,736; in I84I, 6,504.

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Clongesh parish along the Shannon and Lough Forbes

Clongesh · parish · Longford

Clongesh parish in Co. Longford extends along the straits and loughs of the Shannon, lending wood to adorn Lough Forbes. Its chief features of interest are the demesnes of Castle-Forbes and Brianstown, and the village of Newtown-Forbes.

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Houses 1,132. Pop. of the rural di«trictf(, in 18|]« 6,026. Houses 1,054. The surface extends tlonf^ the straits, swamps, and loughs of the Shannoo, and lends a profusion of wood to adorn the ezpan* sion of that stream called Lough Forbes. The chief features of interest are the demesnes of Castle- Forbes and Brianstown, and the village of Neirton-ForbeiL See Cartle-Forbeb. The land is prevailingly low and flat ; partly fertile, and partly boggy ; and averagely worth about 30s. per plantation acre a-year. The highest ground is in the centre, and has an altitude of only 283 feet above sea-level. The prindpnl hamlets are Upper Caldragh, Lower Caldra^h, Upper Lei trim. Lower Briskil, Lower Lisnabo, Upper Ltsnabo, and Lowtown. The road from Longfonl to €^- rick-on« Shannon runs north-north-westward through the interior ; and the advantages of both the Shannon and the Royal Canal navigation are easily accejk»ible
to the inhabitants This parish is a rectory in the

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Clonloghan parish on Shannon estuary

Clonloghan · townland · Clare

The parish of Clonloghan in County Clare rests its south end upon the estuary of the Shannon, lying in the middle of the peninsula between the Shannon and the east side of the estuary of the Fergus. It consists of good arable and feeding ground.

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CLONLOGHAN, a parish in the barony of Lower Bunratty, 2| miles south of Newmarket-on- Fergus, co. Clare, Munster. Length, south by westward, 34 miles; extreme breadth, 1}; area, 2,951 acres, 36 perches. Pop., in 1831, 763; in 1641, 681. Hoikies 03. It rests its south end upon the estuary of the Shannon, yet lies in the middle of the peninsula between the Shannon and the east side of the cstuarv of the Fergus ; and it consists
of good arable and feeding ground The highest

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Clonmacnoise abbey's vast wealth and landed property

Clonmacnoise · townland · Offaly

The establishment became an Augustinian abbey and was universally esteemed, amazingly enriched by kings and princes. Its landed property was so extensive and cells so numerous that almost half of Ireland was said to be within its bounds. Belief that burial there guaranteed ascent to heaven attracted royal sepulture.

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educated, and was therefore called Cluan-mae-nnia^ * the secluded recess of the sons of nobles.* ** The establishment eventually became an abbey of canons regular of the order of^ St. Augustine, and had, for many ages, the reputation of possessing more wealth than any other similar institution in keland. Mr. Archdall says, "This monastic establishment was peculiarly and universally esteemed; it was uncommonly extensive, and amazingly enriched by various kings and princes. Its landed property was so great, and the number of cells and monasteries 8ul»jected to it so numerous, that almost half of Ireland was said to be within the bounds of Clonmacnoise. And what was a strong inducement, and contributed much towards enricliing this house, it was believed that all persons who were interred in the holy ground belonging to it, had insured to themselves a sure and immediate ascent to heaven : many princes (it is supposed for this reason) chose this for the place of their sepulture." The recorded and traditional instances of regal interment are very numerous, and two may be particularized on account of the exact locality being mdicated : in 1155, Tordel vach O'Conor, king of Connaught, Meath, and BreHiny, and monarch of all Ireland, was interred '*near the altar of St. Kieran ;" and, in 1198, Roderic 0*Conor, the last Milesian monarch of Ireland, was buried on the north side of the high altar in the
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Clonmacnoise Castle ruins

Clonmacnoise · townland · Offaly

About a furlong south-west of the cemetery of Clonmacnoise stand the picturesque vestiges of Clonmacnoise-castle. Tradition holds it as the former palace of O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, though ecclesiastical writers claim it was the bishops' residence.

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About a furlong south-west of the cemetery, tod its field of tombs and ruined churches, appear the picturesque vestiges of Clonmacnoise-castle, asserted, by ecclesiastical writers, to have been the residoiee of the bishops of Clonmacnoise, but regarded by tradition and popular belief as the quondam pslaes of O'Melaghlin, King of Meath. The writer whom we have already laid under such large contributim for this article, says, '* It stands out» in singidsr loneliness, on the last spur of the soutJiem limb of the amphitheatre of gravel hills that formed the Aisgir Riada. The slow-flowing Shannpn forms a bend round it If I wanted to call forth a draoghtsman to exhibit with his creative pencil a hidldiiw that time had ruined in the most grotesque mi singular maimer, I could not expect he woiud vesture on such a vagary as this. It stands on a maat, where art has added to natural elevation of the ground, and is surrounded with a dry but doeplbmfc I have just said that time had ruined it — ^thaft oanld not be; some mine, some explosive-shodct most have rent the massive works, and thrown them into the various positions and shapes they now ezhilnt. SoaM parts lie in masses, larger than human ^■Mtitiffift ia the fosse ; others lie rolled in immense heaps in the ballium or court-yard ; an immense eurtaiu-wall, at least 10 feet thick, undermined, lies at an angle of 45 degrees, reclining upon about half a foot of ils thickness, and presents, at a diitance, one of the most singular and picturesque hanging ruins I ever looked on. It is surprising how coarse are the tmterials of this building, — what a large proportion the mortar bears to the stones, which consist of nmaded pebble-stones taken from the a<)jouiing hills ; and il would appear to me, such is the predominatii^ fnh portion of mortar to stones, that the biUldii^ was erected by forming a sort of case-work of boards as hurdles, within which these stones were throwa at random ; and then that a grouting mortar ^

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Clonmacnoise Castle's remarkable mortar construction

Clonmacnoise · townland · Offaly

The author describes the extraordinary building technique of Clonmacnoise Castle, noting the unusually high proportion of mortar bonding rounded stones. The mortar has hardened over time into a mass as hard as the limestone pebbles themselves, making the walls extremely durable.

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hi, wliirh WRS left to settle and solidify; and then the exterior case- work was removed. 1 cannot, in any other way, account for the extraordinary proportion of mortar in this building. I am quite sure that, if any mason at present were to attempt to rear up n wall *20 or 30 feet high of rounded stones, cemented with so large a quantity of lime and sand, the whole concern would tun»ble at once about his t^urs. But the works of Clonmacnoise-castle are now anything but crumbling — no breccia, no pud- <iinj|:-sto'ne can be harder than the composition; time has made the mass so compact, that I am sure it would be just as easy to break the limestone pebbles ot wliich the walls are composed, as to separate the mortar. The view from the staircase is very fine : the tortuous Shannon sweeps calmly underneath; sotitliward are the high grounds about Shannonbrid^M' ; and more to the west, the wooded elevation oil which the ancient episcopal church of Clonfert stands, where St. Brendan ereirted his seven altars, and which, umidst ^surrounding bogs, like Clonmaciioi-e, seems to challei\ge equality of desert seclusion."

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Clonmacnoise: The Seven Churches and monastic ruins

Clonmacnoise · townland · Offaly

Clonmacnoise, also called the Seven Churches, was formerly the site of a Culdean college, an ancient town, monastic buildings, antique churches, a cathedral, and a bishop's residence. It sits on the left bank of the Shannon amid a vast expanse of red bog, atop a chain of low gravel hills called the Aisgir Reada, and possesses extensive ecclesiastical ruins, two round towers, and a celebrated cemetery.

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Clonroacnoise proper — or, as it is often celled. The Seven Churches^was formerly the eite of a Culdean college, an ancient town, rarioua momstie buildings, various antique churches, a cathedral, and a bishop's residence; and it possesses a singalar combination of interest for its dismally sequesterai situation, its wondrous mass of ecclesiastieal roins, its extensive and celebrated cemetery, and its historical associations with at once ancient literaton and warfare, and modem superstitions and demonlizing orgies. Different writers have not inaptly called it, *the lona of Ireland,' and *the Mecca of Irish hagiolatry ;' ]^et these designations point at scarcely one-half of its wide circle of curioas objects and reminiscences. The place is on the left bank of the Shannon, about 4 miles north-east of ^ Shannnn- Bridge, in the midst of a great and chaotic expsnse of red bog, but on the terminating elope of an extraordinary chain of low gravel hills, which bisects the bogs, stoops slowly down to the stagnant river, and bears the name of the Aisgir Reada. A gr^ihie writer, who approached it by boat from Athlone, says, " The solitary hopelessness of the bog is ell around ; and nothing interrupts the silence of the waste but the pipe of the curlew, as it whistles over the morass, or the shriek of the heron, as it rises lazily from the sedgy bank, and GomplaiM alond against our unwonted interruption of its solitary speculations. If ever there was a picture of grim and hideous repose, it is the flow of the Shannoa from Athlone to Clonmacnoise. * * A line of gravel hills, forming the Aisgir Reada, comet from the east, and cuts the line of the Shannon at right angles, causing the great river to form a naA «r bend; and the hills, breaking their direct line as they approach the stream, form en amphitheatre, upon the southern curve of which are erected the Seven Churches. The northern terminates in a beantUal green hill, like the inverted hull of a ship, rooad which the river flows at some distance, Icaviiw an extensive flat of swampy meadow between it aadthe water. As the wind was strong and steadv hen ap the river, causing the labour of rowing to be atoMet intolerable, we drew up our little cot into a eove^ and, ascending the green hill, had at onee from its summit a view of the sacred spot before us, and of the extraordinary country all around. • • • What a dreary vale is Glendalough? what almidy isle is Inniscultra? what a hideous place ia Putriek s purgatory? what a desolate spot is Clonmamnise? From this hill of BentulUgh, on which we nowfltoodi the numerous churches, tiie two round towers, the curiously overhanging bastions of O'HehgUin's Castle, all before us to the south, and relief from the dreary sameness of the red bogs, presented such a picture of tottering i

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Clonmeen Castle ruined in 1641 wars

Clonmeen · parish · Cork · 1641

The castle of Clonmeen, situated some distance east of the parish church, was ruined during the wars of 1641. No further details of its appearance or history are given.

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CLONMEEN, or Cloonmeen, a parish in the central part of the barony of Duhallow, 10 miles west by south of Mallow, co. Cork, Munster. It contains the village of Bakteer: which see. Length, 10 miles; breadth, 8; area, 20,076 acres. Pop., in 1831, 5,344; in 1841,6,361. Houses 1,064. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1841, 6,224. Houses ! .()4"2. The surface consibts of part of the vale, and tlie hill-screens of the river Blackwatcr. About one-third is waste but improvable mountain; and the remainder is arable, and pasture land. The range of mountains called St. Hillary's, are the principal heights ; they extend parallel with the course of the Hlack water, with their summit>line 1^ or 2 miles south of its channel ; and they pour down several torrents through mimic glens and ravines. Such high grounds as once expanded beneath forest were long ago reclaimed ; and such an were for centuries bare of woo<l arc now, for the most part, boggy and waste. Jieneath the turfy sward of the boggy moorlands is a bluish, hard, (X)ld gravel, which cannot be penetrated without much labour. Not fiir from the <-hurch is the hill of Knockiclashy, celebrated as the scene of an action in 1651. See Knockiclasiit. The caitle of Clonuu'en, situated some distance east of the church, was ruined in the wars of 1641. An Augustinian friary is said to have been founded at Cloiimein by the O'Callaghans. After the wars of 1641, and the subsequent forfeitures. Sir Richard Kyrle received a grant of the estate of Clonmeen ; and he erected iron-works, cut down a vast tract of wood, and considerably improved the country; but he eventually sold the estate to Richard Newman, Esq. A portion of the forfeited lands was reserved from the grant made to Sir R. Kyrle, and given back to the original owners, the O'Callaghans; and it descended to their posterity. The interior is tra- VI Tso<l westward by the road from Mallow to Millhtrtet. — This parish is a vicarage in the dio. of Clovne. The vicarial tithes are compounded for Jl'.VIo JK. :^d. ; and the rectorial for £109 Os. 1*<1.; and the latter belong, in etpial proportions, to Robert Phair, l>q , and to the dean and chapter of iMoyne cathedral. The vicarages of Clonmeen and Ko«»keeti constitute the benefice of Clonmeen. Gross intMDine, £:U;9 4s. 7^d. ; nett, £847 Is. 4jd. Patron, the diocesan. The incumbent is also prebendary of Lackeen in Clovne. The church's cost and date of erection are not known. Sittings 120; attendance 20. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 1,7(H); and. in the Ronuin Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapel of kili-oriicy. In lK)4, the Protestants of the parish auiounted to US. and the Roman Catholics to 5,454;

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Clonmel Franciscan friary founded by Otho de Grandison

Clonmel · town · Tipperary

After the Anglo-Norman conquest, Clonmel passed into the possession of Otho de Grandison, an Englishman, who founded the town's Franciscan friary. Clonmel later gives the title of Earl to the noble family of Scott.

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History.] — Clonmel, notwithstanding its acknowledged antiquity, docs not figure in any noticeable authentic event of ancient history. After the Anglo- Norman conquest, it passed, in common with very extensive landed property in the county of Tipperary, into the possession of Otho de Grandison, an Englishman, and the founder of its Franciscan friary. The town seems to have made some figure in the struggles of ages between the English and the Irish round the frontier of the Engliith pale; and it cornea distinctly into notice in connection with the rebellion in favour of Simnel and Warbeck. Its inhabitants evinced a disposition to revolt after the death of Elizabeth ; but were so checked and repressed as to be deterred from open outbreak. The town declared for the Irish or Roman Catholic party at the conunencement of hostilities in 1641, and continued to be one of their strong posts throughout the subsequent rebellion. A siege which it underwent in 1650, and which terminated in its capitulation, is one of the most memorable in the annals of Ireland. Hugh O'Neal, a spirited young man, with 1,200 provincial troops, maintained the town in so gallant a manner against the besiegers, that Cromwell's temper, arts, and militiiry strength, were fairly put to the test; while, on the one hand, Ormonde made strenuous but vain efforts to succour the besieged ; and, on the other. Boetius MacEagan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ross, was particularly active in collecting, animating, and leading on the remains of the troops that Cromwell had put to flight in various engagements. The town was dismantled after its capitulation; yet it continued till the treaty of Limerick to adhere to the muse it had originally espoused. Clonmel gives the title of Karl, in the peerage of Ireland, to the noble family of Scott. Captain Thomas Scott was an oflicer in the service of William HI.; and his grandson, John Scutt, Esq., was made Lord-chief-justice of the King's Bench and Baron Earlsfort in 1784, Viscount Clonmel in 1789, and Eurl of Clonmel in 1793.

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Clonmellon ruins and Killua Castle

Clonmellon · town · Westmeath

Near the town of Clonmellon stand ruins of an ancient church and castle, a pretty lake, and Killua Castle, the fine residence of Sir M. L. Chapman. The residence is a handsome modern castellated mansion in an extensive demesne.

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CLONMELLON, a imall market and pott towi in the parish of Killua, barony of Delvin. co. Wertmeath, Leinster. It stands on the northern mmifin of the barony, and on the road from Athboy to Finnea, 4f miles north-west b^ west of Athboy» and S3 west-north-west of Dublin. The p«rish-chitrdi, situated in the town, is an elegant edifice, surmounted by a spire. A dispensary here it within the Kells Poor-law union, and servet for a di#trict of 12,877 acres, with a pop. of 4,037; and, in 1839^10, it expended £55 15s. I Id., and administered to 2,176 patients. Fairs are held on Jan. 28, May 2, July 25, and Sept. 29. Near the town are the ruins of an ancient church and castle, a pretty lake, and Killnncastle, the fine residence of Sir AI. L. Chapman, Bart. This residence is a handsome, modem, etstellated mansion, and stands amidst an eztensire, varied, and well-planted demesne. Clonmellon gives name to a Roman Catholic parish in the dio. of Meath. See Killua.. Area of the town, 41 acres. Pop., in 1831, 960; in 1841, 859. Houses 1S4. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 73; in manufactures and trade, 80 ; in other pursuits, 37. Families dependent chiefly on property and professions, 8 ; on the directing of labour, 91 : on their own manual labour, 72; on means not specified, 191
CLONMELSH. See Clonmulsk.

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Clonmel Poor-law Union established

Clonmel · town · Tipperary · 1839

The Clonmel Poor-law Union was declared in March 1839 and spanned parts of Waterford and Tipperary with an area of 140 square miles.

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Poor 'law Union.'] — The Clonmel Poor-law union ranks as the 22d ; and was declared on 18th March, ]8.'>9. It lies partly in Waterford and partly in Tipperary ; and it comprises an area of 140 statute square inile>, or 89,*J58 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 37,301. The number of elected and ex-officio guardians is respectively 21 and 7. The electoral divisions are 10 in number; and take their designations from Clonmel, Kilsheelan, Temple-Etny, Lisronagh, Newchapel, Innislonaghty, Kilronan, St. Mary s, Killaloaii, and Rathgormack. The total of valued tenements in the union is 5,266; and of these, 2,468 are valued under £5,— 255 under £6,-232 under £7,— 17i» under £8,-159 under £9,-126 under £10,— llhJ under £12,-177 under £14,-57 under £15,— ^) under £1().— 85 under £18,-84 under £20,~ 227 under £-25,-147 under £30,-235 under £40, — 172 under £50,— and 391 at and above £50. The total nett annual value of property rated, is £89,830 17s. tUd. : the number of persons rated is 5,463; and of these. 808 are rated for a valuation not exceeding i:],_.ji>-2 not exceeding £2, — 316 not exceeding £3,— 184 not exceeding £4,— and 138 not exceeding Xb. The fever hospital in Clonmel is a very su[H rior well-managed institution, and is more than ^ul^u-ient lor the wants of the union ; and, in 1839-40, it rereivrd £(W8 Os. 5d.. expended £821 17». 6d., and admitted 1,093 patients. A snaall surgical bosr)ital, (Mpiible of containing 15 beds, was erected sevrral years ago in Clonmel, half by county pre* Miitinent, and half by a donation from the Savings' It.uik Committee, and is supported by private contributiuns; and, during 1840, it admitted 15 cases of hevere accidents, and expended £58. The dispenvaries of the union are three in number, and pretty e(|UHlly distributed, and have their seats at Clonmel, KiUheelun. and Poulmurka; but that at Clonmel has greatly too wide a sphere, serving for a dbtrict wLich, in' 18(1, contained a pop. of 22,288. to

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Clonmethan church built 1818

near Clonmethan · street · Dublin · 1818

The church at Clonmethan was built in 1818 by means of a loan from the late Board of First Fruits and a parochial assessment. The parish also contains Roman Catholic chapels united to Killossury.

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CLONMETHAN, a parish, formerly in the bnrony of Nethercross, but now in that of West Balrothery, 6| miles north-west of Swords, and 12 north by west of Dublin, co. Dublin, Leinster. It contains the village of Oldtown : which see. Lei^, 3 miles ; breadth, 1 \ ; area, 3,028 acres. Pop , in 1831, 677; in 1841, 509. Houses 62. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1841, 353. Houses 55. The whole of the land is profitable. — This parish is a rectory and prebend in the dio. of Dublin. Titbe composition, £270 ; glebe, £75 18s. 9d. The fcc tory of Clonmethan, the impropriate curacy of Bally macddn, and the vicarages of Bau.tbog]IILI., Palmkrstown, and Westpalatown [see these articles], constitute the benefice of Clonmethan. Length, 4 miles ; breadth, 2^. Pop., in 1831, 2,8801 Gross income, £630 138. 9d. ; nett, £500 19t. 5|d. Patron, the diocesan. The church was built, in 1818, by means of a loan of £401 10s. 9|d. from the late Board of First Fruits, and a parochial assessment to the amount of £230 15s. 4jd. Sitdj^ 100 ; attendance 25. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 300 ; and, in the Roman Cm tbolic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapel of Killossury. There are Roman Catholic chapels also iti Ballyboghill and Ballymacdun. In 1834^ the Protestants of the parish amounted to 8, and the Roman Catholics to 615; the ProtestaiiU of the union to 2*2, and the Roman Catholics to 2,665; a pay school in the parish chapel had on its books 25 boys and 15 girls; and 3 daily schools in the union were attended on the average by 71 children.
CLUNMINES, a parish in the barony of 8hel> bourne, 10 miles south-west by south of Tnghmon, CO. Wexford, Leinster. Length, I ^ mile; breadth, 1 ; area, 1,380 acres. Pop., in 1831, 360 ; in 1841, 377. Houses 64. It lies at the mouth of the Conir river, or on the narrow and upper part of the bay «

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Clonmines extinct incorporated town on the Scar

Clonmines · townland · Wexford

The ancient incorporated but now extinct town of Clonmines stood on the bank of the Scar, comprising about 20 acres and surrounded by walls. It lies at the mouth of the Cor river on the upper part of Bannow Bay.

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for the most part, of light, irretentive arable {^ — The ancient incorporated, hut now extinet \ of Cloiiniines stood on the bank of the Scar, « about 20 acres, and was surrounded by i
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Clonmore Abbey founded by St. Maidoc, Wexford

Clonmore · townland · Wexford

According to Archdall, a celebrated abbey was founded at Clonmore in County Wexford by St. Maidoc, who appointed St. Dichulla as its first abbot. The parish sits along the right bank of the River Slaney, crossed by the rivulet Boro.

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CLONMORE, a parish, partly in the barony of West Shelmalier, but chiefly in that of Bantrv, 4 miles south by west of Enniscorthy, co. Wexford, Leinster. Length, westward, 3^ miles ; breadth, from 1 i to 3^. Area of the Shelmalier section, 1 ,945 acres, 35 perches ; of the Bantry section, 4,821 acres, 3 roods, 30 perches. Pop. of the whole, in 1831, 1.571 ; in 1841. 1,779. Houses 279. Pop. of the Bantry section, in 1831, 1,211; in 1841, 1,452. Houses 230. The surface extends along the right bank of the Slaney ; and is crossed to that stream by the rivulet Boro. The land is generally good, and occasionally prime. Clonmorc- House, near the village of Bree, is the seat of Mr. Donovan. Wilton, the seat of H. Alcock, Esq., is beautifully situated on the Boro. Macmine, the seat of P. N*. King, Esq., stands on the shore of a picturesc^ue bay or lacustrine expansion formed by the windmg of the Slaney. The other seats are Barrymount and KiU gibbon. According to Archdall, a celebrated abbey was founded at Clonmore by St. Maidoc, and had for its firbt abbot St. Dichulla. The road from Enniscorthy to Wexford runs southward through the interior of the parish This parish is a rectory, a

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Clonskea corn-mills on the Dodder

Clonskeagh · townland · Dublin

Extensive corn-mills were erected at Clonskea on the river Dodder by Mr. Henry Jackson at a cost of upwards of £20,000, and were said to be unsurpassed in efficiency by any in Ireland. The village stood in the south-east environs of Dublin.

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CLONSKEA, a village in the parish of Donnybrook, barony and county of Dublin, Leinster. It stands on the river Dodder, in the south-east environs of Dublin. Extensive corn-mills were erected here, at the cost of upwards of £20,000, by Mr. Henry Jackson ; and are said to be unsurpassed in elliciency by any in Ireland. Area of the village, <;s acre/. Pop., in 1841, 352. Houses 67.
CLONTARF, a parish containing a small town of the same name, on the southern border of the barony of Coolock, co. Dublin, Leinster. It contains the villages of Dollymount, Clontarf, and Clontarf Sheds. Length, 2 miles; breadth, l|; area, 1,1W acres. Pop., in ia*H, 3,323; in 1841, 2,664. Houses 30.i. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1831, 2.014; in 1841, \,H5Cu Houses 224. The surface extends along the north side of Dublin bay, and (*on>titutes, in all its parts and features, a prominent portion of the environs of the metropolis, and the su[>erb soft scenery of the beauteous bay. The land is in the highest state of cultivation, and averages in value about £9 per plantation acre ; and it is so thickly studded with elegant mansions and villa<«, and so profusely adorned with wood, shrubbery, lawn, and parterre, as to defy detailed (le-cription or notice within restricted limits. The inhabitants practically enjoy all the multitudinous facilities of communication which open at the roads, railways, canals, and sea-navigation of the nnetropolis. Objects of s|H'cial interest will be noticed in count ction with the town. — This parish is a rectory, and a -eparate benefice, in the dio. of Dublin. Tithe coni[)0>ition, £220. Gross income, £237 8s. 4d. ; i.ttt. £172 15». 5d. Patron, the Crown. The

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Clontarf Castle and its Hospitaller history

Clontarf · parish · Dublin · 1541–1641

Clontarf Castle was one of the oldest fortified residences in the English Pale, retaining a semi-ecclesiastical character. After the suppression of the Templars, it became a preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers and a chief seat of the grand prior of Kilmainham, later passing through several families including the Fentons and Vernons.

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kiiightK, to whom he granted the lordship of Clonturf. The castle is one of the oldest fortified residences within the English pale, and, at the same time, one of the least defaced or altered specimens which exist of the ancient homes of a community of ecclesiastical knights ; and, thoagh considerably transmuted at rarious periods from its original character, and much repaired and modernized b^ the family of its present proprietor, it preserves in its Gothic windows, and in the general features of its facade, a semi-ecclesiastical appearance, and seems, in imitation of the gho.stly knights or military monks themselves, to combine the ecclesiastical and the military characters ; while its general outline, its time-worn surface, and the noble and venerable timl)er that surrounds it, impress it with the stamp of ** hoar antiquity." At the suppression of the order of Templars, the castle became a preceptonr of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, and one of the chief seats of the grand prior of Kilmainham. In the 32d year of Henry VIII., Sir John Rawson, prior of Kilmainham, woo had been for peveral years treasurer of Ireland, surrendered the hospital and its dependencies to the crown ; and, ill 1541, was created Viscount Clontarf, and had assigned to him a pension of 500 marks. In 1600, the manor of Clontarf was granted to Sir Geoffrey Fenton, principal secretary of state, whom Sir Richard Cox styles, " a moth in the garments of all the secretaries of his time ;" in 1637« it was confirmed to his son. Sir William Fenton ; and soon after, it devolved first to a son of this Sir William, and next to a daughter who had married John King, Lord Kingston. In Dec. 1641, the town was burned, and property of the King family to the value of JP4,000 destroyed, by the republican general. Sir Charles Coote. The castle and forfeited lands of Clontarf were afterwards granted by Cromwell to Captain Cromwell, one of the officers of his army ; and they were subsequently sold to the Vernons, ancestors of the present proprietor.

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Clontarf Castle and the Knights Templar

Clontarf · parish · Dublin

Clontarf Castle is believed to have been built during the reign of Henry II, possibly by the Netterville family, Hugh de Lacy Lord of Meath, or Adam de Feypo. It was probably the original pile belonging to the Knights Templar in the area.

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sniall and plain yet neat structure, having at the west end a low perterated pier intended to serve as a belfry. It contains several fairly-executed and wellpreserved sepulchral monuments, and the burialvault of the fiimily of Vemons of Clontarf. The predecessor of this church, in common with many others, was destroyed during the wars in the reigr> of Elizabeth ; and the present structure was built iu 1609. — A monastery, or some other eccleAia>tical establishment, is alleged to have been built in 550 on the site bow occupied by the church, and to have been transmuted in the reign of Henry II. into a romn^andery of Knights Templars. The cantle of ClonUrf, however, was probably the original pile belonginfir to the Templars ; and is believed to have been built in the reign of Henry II., by the Netterville family.— or, as others think, by Hugh de La<*y, Lord of Meath, or Adam de Fcspo, one of hia
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Clontarf parish church rebuilt 1609

Clontarf · parish · Dublin · 1609

The predecessor of Clontarf parish church was destroyed during the wars in the reign of Elizabeth. The present structure was built in 1609 and contains sepulchral monuments and the burial-vault of the Vernon family of Clontarf.

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sniall and plain yet neat structure, having at the west end a low perterated pier intended to serve as a belfry. It contains several fairly-executed and wellpreserved sepulchral monuments, and the burialvault of the fiimily of Vemons of Clontarf. The predecessor of this church, in common with many others, was destroyed during the wars in the reigr> of Elizabeth ; and the present structure was built iu 1609. — A monastery, or some other eccleAia>tical establishment, is alleged to have been built in 550 on the site bow occupied by the church, and to have been transmuted in the reign of Henry II. into a romn^andery of Knights Templars. The cantle of ClonUrf, however, was probably the original pile belonginfir to the Templars ; and is believed to have been built in the reign of Henry II., by the Netterville family.— or, as others think, by Hugh de La<*y, Lord of Meath, or Adam de Fcspo, one of hia
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Clontarf parish church reported in ruins, 1837

Clontarf · parish · Dublin · 1834–1837

The parish church of Clontarf was officially reported in 1837 to be in ruins, though it had been in use in 1834 with an attendance of 150 to 300. The parish was a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Dublin with the corporation of the city of Dublin as patron.

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artificial mineral well eager crowds of belles and lieaux, both invalid and bale. Belvidere, the seat of Sir Cor(hill Coghill, is a handsome brick building, and was formerly occupied by Lord-chancellor Lifford. Drumcondra-castle, the seat of Richard WiU liains, Eijq., is a square, castellated edifice, and was formerly occupied by Sir James Galbraith. Drumcondra-house, the seat of W. Stewart Hamilton, Esq., is a magnificent square building of Portland stone, and was erected by the late Earl of Charleville. Hampton Lodge is the seat of Mrs. Williams, the widow of the late secretary of the Bank of Ireland ; and stands amidst grounds of singular neatness. The road in view of these mansions, and along the Liffey toward Clontarf, wears almost the appearance of an extensive walk in a nobleman's demesne, overlooked by not one cabin, and umbrageously shaded by rows of stately trees. — This parish is wholly impropriate, and forms a perpetual curacy, and separate benefice, in the dio. of Dublin. Gross and nett income, £69 4s. 7|d. Patron, the corporation of the city of Dublin. The tithes belong to that corporation, but are not collected. The church was officially reported in 1837 to be in ruins, but was in use in 1B34, and had an attendance of from 150 to 300. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 300 ; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapels of Clontarf, Coolock, and Santry. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 787* and the Roman Catholics to 1,926; a subscription infant-school had on its books 15 boys and 27 girls; and a female school, attached to a nunnery, and supported partly by the nuns and partly by subscription, had on its books 80 girls.

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Clontead parish and its Catholic chapel

Clontead · parish · Cork · 1831–1834

The parish of Clontead in County Cork is drained southward by the Belgooley rivulet. Its Roman Catholic chapel is united to the chapel of Ballyfeard, and daily schools in the parish were attended by an average of 68 children.

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parish is wholly impropriate, and forms part of the perpetual curacy of Tracton, in the dio. of Cork. See Tracton. The tithes are compounded for £73 17s. and belong to the Earl of Shannon. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 400 ; and. in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapel of Ball\feard. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 31, and the Roman Catholics to 1,304; and 2 daily schools, one of which was aided with £9 lis. a-year from Mr. Townsend, were attended on the avera^^e bv 08 children.
CLO.NTHrSKERT. ' See Clontubkert. .

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Clonturk House and Dhuval's mineral well

near Clonturk · townland · Dublin

Clonturk House, a plain yellow building, is celebrated as the residence of the enterprising empiric Dhuval, who created a mineral well using sulphur, nails, and old iron, and attracted visitors with fireworks, rockets, bombs, and swings, endeavouring to make the place a second Vauxhall.

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CLONTL-RK, a parish in the barony of Coolock; 1| mile north-east of Dublin, co. Dublin, Leinster. It contains the villages of Drumcondra, Bal- LYBouoH, and Richmond : see these articles. Length, I mile ; breadth, } ; area, 1 ,244 acres. Pop., in 1831, 2,534; in 1841, 2,721. Houses 434. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1831, 1,944;* in 1841, 850. Houses 151. The land is of excellent quality, and in the highest state of cultivation ; all of it possesses a very great value ; and a large aggregate is disposed in demesne -grounds, villagrounds, gardens, and town-parks. The south side of the parish is washed by the Tolka or Bally bough river, and by the pent-up and tidal estuary of the Liffey ; and lies in such near juxtaposition to Dublin, that its village, and its profusion of villas, may be regarded as strictly suburban. The old bridge of Ballybough, and the long, new, spacious, splendid erection called Annesley-B ridge, bring over the thoroughfare from Dublin, the former on a line with Great Britain-street and Summer-hill, and the latter on a line with Amiens-street and the Strand. The village of Drumcondra is entered immediately from these bridges, and discloses two fine streets called Phillipsborou^h and Fairview Avenues; but melts so gradually into country, through a profusion of elegant villas and other residences, that its limits cannot easily be defined. Immediately east of it is the gorgeous Charlemont demesne [see Marino]; and on the further bkirt of that demesne, at the divergence of the roads to Clontarf, Raheny, and Artane, is a handsome crescent. We cannot notice all the other objects of interest; and shall glance at only three or tour as a specimen. Clonturk-house is a plain, yellow building ; and is celebrated as the residence of the enterprising empiric Dhuval. — who, by the aid of sulphur, nails, old iron, and other appliances, got up a mineral well, — who attracted the gullible by ** fire-works, rockets, bombs, swing- 8«rangs, and bobbies,'* and who laboured to convert the place into a second Vauxhall, and drew to- bis
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Clontuskert church built 1818 with Board of First Fruits gift

Clontuskert · town · Galway · 1818

The parish church at Clontuskert was built in 1818 using a gift of over £830 from the late Board of First Fruits. It had 110 sittings and an attendance of 120.

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CLONTUSKERT, or Clonthuskert, a parish partly in the barony of Clonmacnoon, and partly in that of Longford, 5 miles north -north-west of Eyrecourt, and about 4^ miles south by west of Ballinasloe, co. Galway, Connaught. licngth, westward, 6^ miles ; extreme breadth, 4. Area of the Clonmacnoon section, 9,988 acres, I rood, 18 perches, — of which 9 acres, 3 roods, 12 perches, are water. Area of the Longford section, 5,521 acres, 1 rood, 19 perches, — of which 69 acres, 3 roods, 35 perches, are in the river Suck. Pop. of the whole, in 1831, 4.002; in 1841, 3,711. Houses 619. Pop. of the Clonmacnoon section, in 1831, 2,609; in 1841, 2,481. Houses 388. A very large proportion of the land is bog ; and the rest consists chiefly of the ridges and slopes of gravel hillocks and hillocky chains, and is, for the most part, of excellent quality. The stagnant, sedgy, ditch-like Suck, creeps along the boundary with co. Roscommon ; a rivulet drains a large district north-eastward to the Suck ; and the road from Ballinasloe to Eyrecourt passes through the interior. The principal seats are MacDermot slodge, Somerset-house, Liskelly-house, KirwanV lodge, and Kelly 's-grove ; and the chief hamlets are Wakefield, Araghry, Sinclair's village, Glenloughaun, Clontuskert, Ballagh, Cullydarry, Crown's- Nest, and Cloonascragh. The Grand Canal passes along the north border, near the Suck. Archdall finds a monastery for Augustinian canons in Clontuskert at the commencement of the 9th century ; and says it was founded and presided over by Boadan or Broadan, who died about the year 809. — This parish is a rectory, and part of the benefice of Clonfert [which see], in the dio. of Clonfert. Tithe composition, £258 9s. 2]d.; glebe, £19 13s. 9d. The church was built, in 1818, by means of a gift of £830 15s. 4hd. from the late Board of First Fruits. Sittings I'lO; attendance 120. A curate officiates exclusively for Clontuskert. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 350. A friary at Boula has a community of 3 friars; and its chapel

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Cloonaff and the St. Patrick monastery tradition

Cloonaff · townland · Roscommon

A tradition associating St. Patrick with founding monasteries at Cloonaff in County Roscommon is dismissed by the author as a tiresome fable, one shared with many other Irish parishes. The parish surface is largely marsh and bog with little good land.

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CLOON A FF, Clonaff, or Cloncraff, a parish on the east border of the barony of Roscommon, 5 miles north-north-east of Strokestown, co. Roscommon, Connaught. Length, westward, 5} miles; breadth, from 1( furlong to 3 miles; area, 5,45i acres, I rood, 30 perches, — of which 387 acres, 3 roods, 8 perches, are in Lough Bodarig, 207 acres, 2 roods, 5 perches, arc in Lough Nablahy, and 332 acres, 2 roods, 24 perches, are iii small lakes. Pop., in 1831, 2,524; in 184>, 2,853. Houses 499. Much of the surface is marsh and bog; and scarcely any is prime or even tolerably good land. The south-west arm of Lough Bodang washes the southern frontier ; and a chain of lakes lies across the interior. The principal mansion is Clenaghee-house. The utterly tiresome fable of monasteries, founded by St. Patrick, associates itself with CloonafiTas with >«obody knows how many other Irish parishes. The road from Strokestown to Drumsna passes through the interior. — This parish is a rectory, and part of the benefice of Aughrim [which see], in the dio. of Elphin. Tithe composition, i:iOO. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 7, and the Roman Catholies to 2,671 ; and a daily school was aided with £2 2s. a-year from Mrs. Cofiry, and had on its books 85 bovs and 31 girls.
CLOON AG ASHILL, a bog a brief distance west of Holly mount, barony of Kilmain, co. Mayo, Connaught. Area, 1,629 acres. It is to a large extent reclaimed and improved ; and was reported on as follows in 1814: *' This is a firm, dry, compact, black bog. The river Robe runs through it. * • It is remarkably well circumstanced with respect to improvement, good limestone gravel being in all parts ver^ convenient for spreading on its surface. The bog 13 averagely 15 feet deep ; the under strata is lirnotone gravel. On the edge of this beg, adjoining the road leading from Holl^mount to Ballinrobe, the plantation, which consists of fir, alder, beech, &c., is remarkably fine." Its height above the level of high water in Galway bay is 1149 feet. Estimated cost of reclamation, £2,263 lOs. Cioona. ga^hil-house htands 1| mile west of Hollymount.

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Cloonclare parish contains Kiltyclogher and Manorhamilton

Cloonclare · townland · Leitrim

The parish of Cloonclare, also called Clonclare, straddles the baronies of Rossclogher and Dromahaire in County Leitrim. The Rossclogher section contains the village of Kiltyclogher, while the Dromahaire section contains the larger part of the town of Manorhamilton.

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CLONCLARE, or Cloonclare, a parish, partly in the barony of Rossdogher, but chiefly in that of Dromahaire, co. Leitrim, Connaught. The Rossclogher section contains the village of Kiltt- CLOOBER ; and the Dromahaire section contains the larger part of the town of Maxor-Hamiltok: »ee these artic]e<*. Length, westward. 8 miles; breadth, from I to 5J. Aiea of the Ru»acloghcr sccttoiiv
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Cloondragh Island and Royal Canal Terminus

Cloondara · townland · Longford

An island in the Shannon and river Camlin, crossed by the road from Longford to Strokestown via bridges and a causeway. At the island are the docks, basins, and warehouses of the western terminus of the Royal Canal, with improvements projected by the Committee on the Shannon Navigation.

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the rirer Camlin. Its whole sorface is flat and low; and the greater part of its eastern half is bog. The road from Longfoni to Strokestown pMses across its south-west corner : it is carried over the southern branch of the Camlin by a bridge of 4 arches, and 32 yards in length ; over the comer of the island, by a causeway 34 yards in length ; and over the Shannon, by a bridge of 7 arches, and 60 yards in length ; the whole forming a straight flat passage of 126 yards in length, and 16 feet in width. At the Longford end of the passage stands the village of Castletown ; and at the Roscommon end stands that of Tarmonbarry. At the island of Cloondragh are the docks, basins, and warehouses of the western terminus of the Royal Canal ; and here occur also improvements projected by the Committee on the Shannon Navigation. See Richmond Harbour.
CLOONDARA, or Cloondragh, a village on the above island, and in the parish of Killashee, barony and co. Longford, I^^inster. Area, 40 acres*. Fop., in ia31, 214 ; in 1841, 416. Houses 82.

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Cloonoghill Parish Antiquities: Castle and Old Abbey

Cloonacool · townland · Sligo

A parish west of Ballymote containing Lough Templehouse and Lough Cloonacleigha. Objects of antiquarian interest include Ballyfaghy-castle and faint vestiges of what seems to be an old abbey.

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CLOONOGHILL, or Cloonacool, m psrish on the west border of the barony of Corran, 3| miles west-south- west of Ballymote, co. Sligo, Connaught. Length, south by westward, 4 miles ; extfcme breadth, 3k; area, 7,097 acres, 3 roods, 27 perches, — of which 106 acres, I rood, are in Lough Tenpiehouse, and 177 acres, 3 roods, 28 perches, are in Lough Cloonacleigha. Pop., in 1831, 2,241; in 1841, 2,568. Houses 459. The land consists variously of good arable and pasture grounds, and of reclaimable moor and bog. The declination ia to the north ; and the drainage is effected, along the eastern boundary, by the Awinmore. Lough Templehouse lie* on the northern boundary, and has a surface-elevation above sea-level of 186 feet. Lough €?1oonacleigha lies wholly m the interior, a little north of the centre. The chief hamlet is Bunnanaddan ; the only noticeable country residence is Roadstown ; and the objects of antiquarian interest are Ballyfaghy-castle, and some faint vestiges of what seems an old abbev. The road from Ballymote to Tobercurry passes southwestward through the interior This parish is a vic-
arsge, and part of the benefice of Achonrt [which see], in the dio. of Achonry. The vicarial tithes are compounded for £80, and the rectorial for £60 ; and the latter are impropriate in Mr. Baker. Three Roman Catholic chapels have an attendance respectively of 700, 1,200. and 1,200. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 71. and the Roman Catholica to 2,256; and 2 daily schools— one of which was supported by the Baptist Society — had on theiv books 100 boys and 50 girls.

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Clough Castle in Danish Rath, co. Down

Clough · townland · Down

An old castle situated in a Danish rath near the road from Newry to Downpatrick, with a winding staircase and extensive outworks. The building is attributed to the Danes and was built solely for defense.

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CLOUGH, a village, or small post-town, in the parish of Loughin-Island, barony of Kinnelearty, co. Down, Ulster. It stands on the road from Newry to Downpatrick, and not far from the head of Dundrum bay, 4 miles east-north-east of Castlewellan, 5 west-south-west of Downpatrick, 26 south of Belfast, and 68^ north bv east of Dublin. Fairs are held in May, June, ^uly, Oct., Nov., and Dec. Here is a Presbyterian meeting-house. An old castle, situated in a Danish rath, has a very antique appearance ; and is thus noticed by Mr. Atkinson : '* It has still part of a winding staircase existing, and must have been solely built for defence, as it was too small for the residence of a family of note : the building of it is attributed to the Danes. The outworks which surround it are very extensive, extending behind the town to the cast as far as the gardens of Mr. Moore's house : the situation is excellent for defence, the ground sloping from it on all sides, and no hill sufficiently nenr to command it" Area of the town, 28 acres. Pop., in 1841, 435. Hou«es 74.
CLOUGH, a village in the parish of Castlecomer, barony of Fassadining, co. Kilkenny, Leinster. It stands at the north-east extremity of the county, j of a mile north of the Dinane rivulet, and 4 miles north-north-east of Castlecomer. I'he site of the Roman Catholic chapel has an altitude of 4G9 feet above the level of the sea; yet is quite low in relative position to the circumjacent upland country. The Clough brewery stands on the Dinane rivulet. The village gives name to a Roman Catholic parish. See Ca8TLecomkr. Area of the village, 70 acres. Pop., in 1831, 582 ; in 1841, 525. Houses 106.

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Cloydagh Church built in 1800

Cloydagh · parish · Carlow · 1800

The church in the parish of Cloydagh was built in the year 1800. Its construction was aided by a gift of over £461, and the rectorial tithes were impropriate in Col. Bruen and W. Fishbounie.

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CLOYDAGH, or Clody, a parish, partly in the barony of Slievemargy, Queen's co., and partly in that of Carlow, co. Carlow, but chiefly in that of West Idrone, co. Carlow, 3 miles south-south-west of the town of Carlow, Leinster. Length, westward, 4 miles; breadth, from } of a mile to 2} miles. Area of the Slievemargy section, 788 acres, 28 perches, — of which 245 acres, 2 roods, 33 perches, lie detached in Queen's co., yet contiguous to the Carlow parts of the parish, and 1 rood, 32 perches, are in the river Barrow. Area of the barony of Carlow section, 1,265 acres, 2 roods, 11 perches, — of which 27 acres, 1 rood. 32 perches, are in the Barrow. Area of the Idrone section, 2,889 acres, 2 roods, 29 perches, — of which 22 acres, 8 perches, are in the Barrow. Pop. of the whole, in 1831, 1,422; in 1841, 1,499. Houses 240. Pop. of the Idrone section, in 1831, 903; in 1841, 997. Houses 101. Pop. of the barony of Carlow section, in 1831, 204; in 1841, 211. Houses 27. It comprises part of the rich vale of the river Barrow, and the greater portion of those green, beautiful, gently descending offshoots of the Slievemargy mountaim which bear the name of Cloghrenan Hills. A small part of the surface is upland waste : most of the hilly ground is either woodland or pasture ; and the opulent low lands on the Barrow are chiefly in tillage, yet largely disposed in the parks and woods and profuse embellishments of demesne ground. The principal assemblage of interesting features is noticed iu the article Cloghrenan : which see. The principal summit is that of Cloghrenan hill, situated a little south of the centre, and possessing an altitude of 1,038 feet above sea-level. The Bilboa colliery is situated on the west border. The principal seat<, a4lditional to Cloghrenan, are Fonthill and Raheendoran. A little south of Cloghrenan demesne is the singularly interesting locality of Alillford, — celebrated for flour-mill establishments whose great extent and accompanying improvements are fitted to astonish Englishmen. See Millford. The western road from Carlow to Leighlin- Bridge passes down the right bank of the Barrow; and the advantages of that river's navigation are^ enjoyed by the inhabitants. — This parish is a vicarage, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Leighlin. Vicarial tithe composition, £92 6s. l|d. ; glebe, £25 4s. Gross income, £117 10s. Ijd.; nett, £77 17!*. S^d. Patron, the diocesan. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £184 12s. 3|d., and are impropriate in Col. Bruen and W. Fishbounie, Esq. The church was built, in 1800, by meant of a gift of £461 lOi. 9|d. from the ktff

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Cloyne: Ancient Episcopal City in Decline

Cloyne · town · Cork

Cloyne is described as an ancient Episcopal city in a rich vale near Cork Harbour, consisting principally of two intersecting streets. The town's general appearance is that of a small ancient city, now so abandoned to neglect as to be menaced with village insignificance and almost extinction.

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streets, which intersect each other's <«ntre at right angles. Most of the houses are well built; and many are characterized by massive square chiiniie|S. The general appearance of the place is that or a small ancient aty, more pretending than sumptaous in its former character, more venerable than artistieBl in its architectural monuments, and now so abaadoned to neglect as to be menaced with village iasignificance, and almost with extinction.
The Cathedra^— The cathedral is a plam, heavy, ancient, cruciform structure, in good preservatioai It claims to have been founded in the 6th eentniy bf St. Coleman ; but presents architectural erideoee of being, in none of its parts, of earlier date than womt period between the reign of Stephen and that of Edward I. The early style of pointed arckiteetaif; prevailingly characterized by the simple laneet arch, pervades the eastern or most ancient part of the edifice ; yet yields, in the large east window, to s more elaborate style of design, and, in other psrti^ to various features of innovation and change. The choir was repaired in 1776, under the direction of Bishop Agar ; and it then received into taeongmons blending with its more austere Uneanents, varioes features and ornaments in the Italian style. The whole structure, in fact, has been so often andhnvlingly patched, daubed, and played with by empirhcism and stupidity, that a stranger might alosostsa^ pose it, on a cursory glance, to be a rude piece of masonry tastelessly constructed out of the qutfrisd ruins of a group of fallen and variously-dated GotUe piles. " The remains of aneient carved atone-woih, mouldings, shafts, rauUions, capitals, fte., are everywhere plastered, and encrusted over with wUtewash; ancient windows are filled in with lasonrys while modern ones have been opened up out of all harmony with the character of the building." The

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Cloyne Cathedral Founded by St. Coleman

Cloyne · town · Cork · 500–1776

The cathedral of Cloyne is a plain, heavy, ancient, cruciform structure claiming foundation in the 6th century by St. Coleman, though its architecture dates no earlier than between the reigns of Stephen and Edward I. The early pointed style with simple lancet arches pervades the eastern part, while the choir was repaired in 1776 under Bishop Agar with Italian-style additions.

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The Cathedra^— The cathedral is a plam, heavy, ancient, cruciform structure, in good preservatioai It claims to have been founded in the 6th eentniy bf St. Coleman ; but presents architectural erideoee of being, in none of its parts, of earlier date than womt period between the reign of Stephen and that of Edward I. The early style of pointed arckiteetaif; prevailingly characterized by the simple laneet arch, pervades the eastern or most ancient part of the edifice ; yet yields, in the large east window, to s more elaborate style of design, and, in other psrti^ to various features of innovation and change. The choir was repaired in 1776, under the direction of Bishop Agar ; and it then received into taeongmons blending with its more austere Uneanents, varioes features and ornaments in the Italian style. The whole structure, in fact, has been so often andhnvlingly patched, daubed, and played with by empirhcism and stupidity, that a stranger might alosostsa^ pose it, on a cursory glance, to be a rude piece of masonry tastelessly constructed out of the qutfrisd ruins of a group of fallen and variously-dated GotUe piles. " The remains of aneient carved atone-woih, mouldings, shafts, rauUions, capitals, fte., are everywhere plastered, and encrusted over with wUtewash; ancient windows are filled in with lasonrys while modern ones have been opened up out of all harmony with the character of the building." The

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Cloyne Round Tower struck by lightning

Cloyne · town · Cork · 1683–1749

A pillar-tower near Cloyne cathedral, 10 feet in diameter and originally 92 feet high, was renovated in 1683 and used as a belfry. In 1749 lightning destroyed its conical roof and threw down the bell, after which an embattlement was placed round the top.

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Buildinys adjoining the Cathedral. "^ — The ceme* tery around the cathedral is spacious, and acquires a secluded and agreeable appearance from numerous trees planted upwards of a century ago by Bishop Maule. Within it, and at a brief distance from the north-east angle of the cathedral, are the remains of a very ancient building, measuring 30 feet by 19, and f^uppo<ed to have been the original church of Cloyne, or predeces'ior of the present cathedral. Beyond the enclosure, and separated from it by the high road, yet only about 100 feet distant from the north-west angle of the cathedral, stands a pillar-tower, 10 feet in diameter, and originally 9*2 feet in height. In 1683 it was renovated, and began to be used as a belfry ; and, in 1749, a stroke of lightning rent the vaulted top, threw down the bell, and considerably damaged the walls of the pile. After this demolition of the conical roof, an embattlement was placed round the top, so that the tower slightly differs in appearance from the other interesting Irish antiquities of its class. — The palace and Episcopal (lemesne, connected with the cathedral, were the residence of a long line of bishops up to the recent annexation of the see to Cork and Ross : and are ¥0 interestingly described in the Letter to which allusion has been made from Bishop Bennett to Dr. Parr, that we are induced to quote the passage : *' The Episcopal house is at the east end of the village; a large irregular building, having been altered and improved by different bishops, but altogether a comfortable and handsome residence. The side next to the village has a very close screen of trees and shrubs ; and three other ^ides look to a large garden, and a farm of 400 acres. T\\\< farm constitutes what is called the mensal lands, is generally close to the palace, and was intended for the corn and cattle consumed at the bishop's table. The garden is large — four acres — consi«*ti ng of four quarters full of truit, particularly strawberries and raspberries, which Bishop Berkeley had a predilection for; and separated as well as surrounded by shrubberies, which contain some pretty winding walks, and one large one, of nearly a quarter of a mile long, adorned for great part of its leiik'th by a hedge of myrtles, six feet high, planted by Berkeley's uwn hand, and which hi^ each of them a lar^e ball of tar put to their roots. At the end of the garden in what we call the rock shrubbery, a walk leading under young trees among sequestered rrag«4 of limestone which hang many feet above our heads, and ending at the mouth of a cave ut utiknowM lenu:th and depth, branching to a great (ii-tance under the earth, and sanctified by a thousand wild triwiition*:."

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Clydagh river and the mansions of Newbury and Dromore

Clydagh · townland · Cork

The Clydagh river rises on the north side of Condagh mountain in County Cork and runs ten miles to join the Blackwater above Mallow. The mansions of Newbury and Dromore are beautifully situated on its elevated banks amidst copsewood and plantation near its embouchure.

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CLYD AGU (The), a rivulet of co. Cork, Munster. It rises on ^e north side of Omdiagh mountain, and runs 10 miles north-eastward and northward to the Black water at a point 1^ mile above Mallow. The mansions of Newbury and Dromore are beautifully situated on its elevated banks, and amidst a considerable expanse of copsewood and plantation, a little above its embouchure.
CO ACHFORD, a village in the parish of Mugourney, barony of East Muskerry, co. Cork, Munster. Area, 24 acres. Pop., in 1841, 361. Houses 68.

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Coal-Island coal mining district and its six coal beds

near Coal Island · town · Tyrone · 1740–1839

The Coal-Island mining district in County Tyrone worked six beds of coal over the preceding century with varying success. In 1839 the Coal-Island Coal Company was sinking a deep pit at Annagher on the thickest bed, though disturbed stratification made mining scantily compensating. The village also had a small iron-work manufacturing spades and shovels.

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with various success ; and, in 1839, the Coal-Island Coal Company were sinking at Annagher, a very deep pit on the highest and thickest bed of coal. The beds are 6 in number ; and, named in a descending seres, are as follow: — Annagher coal, from 8 to 10 feet thick ; yard coal, from 2 to 3 feet ; Brackaville coal, from 4^ to 5 feet ; Battybov coal, from 9 inches to 3 feet; Derry coal, from 4j^to 5 feet; and Goratiiaskea or Cannel coal, from 2 to 6 feet. The stratification, however, is so much disturbed and dislocated by faults, that the extent of coal commanded by each pit is usually very much circumscribed ; and this circumstance, jointly with that of softness and incoherency in the beds of shale and sandstone which accompany the coal, has occasioned the mining processes to be but scantily compensating. The coal, in aggregate quality, resembles that of Ayrshire in Scotland, burning swiftly, and leaving a bulky residuum of yellowish-white ashes ; and a large proportion of it is fit only or chiefly for the uses of brick or lime works. Area of the Donaghenry section of the village, 10 acres; of the TuUyniskan section, 10 acres. Pop., in 1841, of the Donaghenry section, 281 ; of the TuUyniskan section, 170. Houses in the two sections, respectively 52 and 30.
COGLANSTOWN. See Tully, co. Kildare.

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Coleman's Leap chasm at Killarney

Killarney · town · Kerry

A narrow chasm at the entrance of the upper lake of Killarney from Turk Lake, narrowed to about 50 feet by a peninsula called Coleman's Eye. Tradition holds that a person named Coleman leaped across it, and the rock on the west side bears a seeming impression of human feet.

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COLEMAN'S LEAP, a chasm or gorgy hillpass, at the entrance of the upper lake of Killarney, from Turk lake, co. Kerry, Munster. The contraction at the place narrows the passage to only about SO feet; and is occasioned by a peninsula called Coleman's Eye, which, when represented upon a map, bears a striking resemblarice to the outlines of a human eye. The chasm has its name from a tradition that a person culled Coleman leaped across it; and the solid rock on its west side exhibits a specimen of the not uncommon lusus natura of a seeming impression of human feet.
COLEMAN'S WELL, or Clouncoragh, a parish on the southern border of the barony of Upper Connello, and of co. Limerick, Munster. Area, 2,811 acres. Pop., in 1831, 831; in 1841, 924. Houses 1 15. The nascent Maig, pursuing an easterly course, truces the southern boundary ; and the rood from Charleville to Rathkeale runs north-westward through the interior. Charleville lies about 2 miles to the south-east. — This parish is in the dio. of Limerick; but contains no *' provision for the cure

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Coleraine fever hospital

near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1839–1840

A fever hospital at Coleraine was capable of containing 20 beds but was quite incompetent for the wants of the union. In 1839-40 it expended £107 9s. 6d. and admitted 70 patients, with expectations of enlargement.

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under £10, 18 under £9, 18 under £8, 6 under £7, 6 under £6, and 5 under £5 } and of persons who rank as £10 electors in the borough constituency, there were traced 70 who were rated under £10, 68 under £9, 54 under £8, 89 under £7, 30 under £6, and 17 under £5. The total nctt annual value of the property rated is £77,297 15s. ; the total number of persons rated is 6,'386 ; and of these, 245 are rated for a valuation not exceeding £1, — 753, not exceeding £2, — 572, not exceeding £3, — 468, not exceeding £4, — and 418, not exceeding £5. The workhouse was contracted for on Nov. 10, 1840, — to be finished in March 1842,— to cost £6,870 for building and completion, and £1,270 129. 6tl. for fittings and contingencies, — to occupy an area of 6 acres, 3 roods, 20 perches, purchased for £859 78. 6d., — and to contain accommodation for 700 persons. The date of the first admission of paupers whs April 19. 1842; the total expenditure thence till Feb. 6, 184,^ was £1,769 4<. Bil; and the total previous expenditure was £1,152 5s. S^d. The county infirmaries are too di<;taiit to be available except for occasional surgical cases. A fever hospital at Coleraine is capable of containing 20 beds, but is quite incompetent for the wants of the union, ^et may be expected to be enlarged ; and, in 1839-40, It expended £107 9s. 6d., and admitted 70 patients. The dispensary districts are 5 in number; they have their seats at Coleraine, Ballyaghran, Buiihmills, Aghadowey, and Garvogh : and they include an area which, in 1831, contained a pop. of 51.266. The Coleraine dispensary has a district of 31,557 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 18,211; and, m 1839-40, it expended £148 15:*. 5d., and made 9,393 dispensations of medicine to 4, 154 patients. In 1841, a Loan Fund had a capital of £316 interest free, and circulated £325 in 172 loans. The Coleraine Chari table Society, incorporated by a statute of 15 and 16 Geo. III., and the Coleraine Mendicitv Association, voluntarily formed in 1825, made weekly allowances to the poor, and had under their care a poor-house which, in 1832, had 32 inmates, and an income, chiefly from subscriptions and donations, of £359 18s. 7d. A benefaction to the poor of £20 Irish a-year was bequeathed by a Mr. Curtis.

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Coleraine half-barony basaltic landscape

near Coleraine · town · Derry

The half-barony of Coleraine in Londonderry is described as a bleak, bare, upland basaltic region, relieved only by intersecting glens and the rich valley-skirt of the River Bann. Statist Mr. Sampson depicted the hill-country as deaf soil and ridges of rude basalt bereft even to the sloe and the bramble.

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rrches, are tideway in the river Bann, and 522 acres, rood, 22 perches, are fresh water. The Lower Bann forms all the boundary-line with the eoontyof Antrim, — a distance of 6^ miles ; the Agivey, the Aghadowey, and the Macaskin rivulets, tribatarics of the Bann, drain much the greater portion of the surface ; and two or three very unimportant brooks trot direct to the Atlantic. The district inunediately upon the Bann, and some patches and pci^ dides of land upon the principal rivulets, are good, low, arable ground ; but nearly all the remainder of tht surface is a bleak, bare, upland, basaltic region; sad, but for intersecting glens, and the rich valley-skirt of the Bann, the district might be pronounced mk qualifiedly inhospitable and dreary. Mr. Sanpsos, the statist of the county, when summarily descnbim the whole hill-country of the half-valley, or rather half-basin of the Bann, strikingly and with one dssh, depicts the greater portion of the half-barony of Coleraine, — " Deaf soil, or rust of basalt, ridges or * tummocks' of rude basalt, bereft even to the sloe and the bramble." — This half-barony contains part of the parishes of Kilrea and Tamhight O'Cnlly; and the whole of the parishes of Agivey, Agksdowev, Desertoghill, Dnimboe, Erri|pil, KiUovCfl, and Alocasquin. The annual valuation, under ths Poor-law Act, is £33,478; and the sums levied luder the grand warrants of spring and summer, 1840^ wh* respectively i:2,161 1 Is., and £2,006 1 Is. 6d. Pop., in 1831, 31,805 ;• in 1841, 34,830. Houses 63M. Families employed chiefly in agriculture, 3.721 ; is manufactures and trade, 2,495; in other punals, 342. Males at and above 5 years of age wno eouUl read and write, 6,735; who could read but not wiilr, 5,136; who could neither read nor write, 2»56fiL Females at and above 5 years of age who could nad and write, 3,166; who could read but not wrifiCb 9,446 ; who could neither read nor write, 3.485.

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Coleraine parish church, a very old building

near Coleraine · town · Derry

The parish church of Coleraine is described as a very old building. It served a congregation with 1,000 sittings and an attendance of about 350 in the 1830s. The patronage belonged to the Irish London Society.

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(H)LERAINE, a parish in the Liberties of Coleraiiu?, CO. Lorulonderry, Ulster. It lies along the right hunk of the Bann, and contains the larger section ot the town of Colerainc. Length, southward, 4 ujdes ; extreme breadth, 2A ; area, 4,846 aore^*, 1 rood, 19 perches, — of which 22 acres, 33 perches are in the river Bann. Pop., in 18.31. 5.(;^8; in 1841, 5,857. Houses 1,037. Pop., of the rural di>trict>, in ia3l, 1,894; in 1841, 1,712. Houses 314. An oflicial report sa^s, '*The quality of the land in tiiis parish consists m general of K^ud arable, with a Mnall proportion of peat-moss, without ajiy mountain." Objects of interest will be noticed in connection with the town, or under separate heads. — This parish is a rectory, and a separate l»eneti('c', in the dio. of Connor. Tithe composition, X4:a); Kh'he, £00. Gro<s income, £546 13s. Ud.; nett, £-iK) Us. 5d. Patron, the Irish London Society. The church is a very old building. Sitting's IWA) ; attendance 350. Five Presl)ytcrian ineetinfr-hou-es are attended by respectively 600, 400, 400, 4.'^), and 250; and a Baptist meetinghouse, by UK). There is also a Wesleyaji Methodist u)e('tin^'-h()u^e. In IKU, the parinhioners consisted ot 1.441 Churchmen, 3.(J8l Presbyterians, 144 other
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Coleraine's decay and sod walls in 1618

near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1618

By 1618, Coleraine had fallen into decay after Sir John Perrott's retirement, with walls and ramparts built of mere sods beginning to crumble. Mr. Pynnar reported the town had no provision for mounting artillery and scarcely enough inhabitants to man a sixth part of its walls.

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Former State of the Town."] — The modern town, or the field of edifices which superseded an ancient village on the site, appears to have been planned by Sir John Perrott, Lord-deputy of Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth. The houses of which it was constructed were timber-built, and were framed in London, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Each frame consisted of hard black oak, in the form of what is called cage-work; the interstices were filled with wicker-work and clay, — or, more properly, with plastered wicker-work; and the front was con- Btructed with a pent- way or piazza. Until within a very few years ago, some of the original houses were to be seen in good preservation in the Diamond or central square of the town, figuring in antique and outre contrast to the tall, trim, modern stone edifices. Soon after the retirement of Sir John Perrott, the town fell greatly into decay; it was walled and ramparted with mere sods; and, in 1618, it had no provision for the mounting of a single piece of artillery, and contained scarcely a sufficient number of inhabitants to man a sixth part of its walls. ** That part of the town which is unbuilt," says Mr. Pyniiar, ** is so extreme dirty that no man is able to go in it, and especially that which should, and is accounted to be the market-place. The walls and ramparts, built of sods and filled with earth, do begin to decay very much, and to moulder away ; for the ramparts are so narrow that it is impossible they should stand, and the bulwarks are so exceeding little, that there cannot be placed any piece of artillery if occasion were. There are two small ports, which are made of timber and boards; and they serve for houses for the soldiers to watch in."

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Coleraine title of Baron to the Hanger family

near Coleraine · town · Derry

Coleraine gives the title of Baron to the noble family of Hanger. The town also serves as the seat of a Presbytery of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, exercising inspection over 18 congregations.

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the designation of the "Governor and Assistants of the New Plantation of lTUt<ir," received a grant of Coleraiiie and a great part of the county of Londonderrv ; and their successors, usually called the Irish or the Hon. Irish Society, still hold the property, but only as superiors; for the town is let on leases under them, and an extensive adjacent estate is held on perpetuity from them by the Marquis of Waterford Coleraine gives the title of Baron to the
noble family of Hanger. — A Presbytery of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, has its seat in Coleraine, exercises inspection over 18 congregations, and meets on the last Tuesday of Jan. and July, and the second Tuesday of May and Oct.

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Coleraine town planned by Sir John Perrott under Elizabeth

near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1558–1625

The modern town of Coleraine was planned by Sir John Perrott, Lord-deputy of Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth, superseding an ancient village on the site. The houses were timber-built, framed in London in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, using hard black oak cage-work with plastered wicker-work and a pent-way or piazza front.

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Former State of the Town."] — The modern town, or the field of edifices which superseded an ancient village on the site, appears to have been planned by Sir John Perrott, Lord-deputy of Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth. The houses of which it was constructed were timber-built, and were framed in London, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Each frame consisted of hard black oak, in the form of what is called cage-work; the interstices were filled with wicker-work and clay, — or, more properly, with plastered wicker-work; and the front was con- Btructed with a pent- way or piazza. Until within a very few years ago, some of the original houses were to be seen in good preservation in the Diamond or central square of the town, figuring in antique and outre contrast to the tall, trim, modern stone edifices. Soon after the retirement of Sir John Perrott, the town fell greatly into decay; it was walled and ramparted with mere sods; and, in 1618, it had no provision for the mounting of a single piece of artillery, and contained scarcely a sufficient number of inhabitants to man a sixth part of its walls. ** That part of the town which is unbuilt," says Mr. Pyniiar, ** is so extreme dirty that no man is able to go in it, and especially that which should, and is accounted to be the market-place. The walls and ramparts, built of sods and filled with earth, do begin to decay very much, and to moulder away ; for the ramparts are so narrow that it is impossible they should stand, and the bulwarks are so exceeding little, that there cannot be placed any piece of artillery if occasion were. There are two small ports, which are made of timber and boards; and they serve for houses for the soldiers to watch in."

Internet Archive parliamentaryga00unkngoog, Chapter 227

Coleraine workhouse contracted and built

near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1840–1842

The Coleraine workhouse was contracted for on 10 November 1840, to be finished by March 1842, costing £6,870 for building and £1,270 for fittings. It occupied an area of over 6 acres and was designed to accommodate 700 persons, with the first paupers admitted on 19 April 1842.

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under £10, 18 under £9, 18 under £8, 6 under £7, 6 under £6, and 5 under £5 } and of persons who rank as £10 electors in the borough constituency, there were traced 70 who were rated under £10, 68 under £9, 54 under £8, 89 under £7, 30 under £6, and 17 under £5. The total nctt annual value of the property rated is £77,297 15s. ; the total number of persons rated is 6,'386 ; and of these, 245 are rated for a valuation not exceeding £1, — 753, not exceeding £2, — 572, not exceeding £3, — 468, not exceeding £4, — and 418, not exceeding £5. The workhouse was contracted for on Nov. 10, 1840, — to be finished in March 1842,— to cost £6,870 for building and completion, and £1,270 129. 6tl. for fittings and contingencies, — to occupy an area of 6 acres, 3 roods, 20 perches, purchased for £859 78. 6d., — and to contain accommodation for 700 persons. The date of the first admission of paupers whs April 19. 1842; the total expenditure thence till Feb. 6, 184,^ was £1,769 4<. Bil; and the total previous expenditure was £1,152 5s. S^d. The county infirmaries are too di<;taiit to be available except for occasional surgical cases. A fever hospital at Coleraine is capable of containing 20 beds, but is quite incompetent for the wants of the union, ^et may be expected to be enlarged ; and, in 1839-40, It expended £107 9s. 6d., and admitted 70 patients. The dispensary districts are 5 in number; they have their seats at Coleraine, Ballyaghran, Buiihmills, Aghadowey, and Garvogh : and they include an area which, in 1831, contained a pop. of 51.266. The Coleraine dispensary has a district of 31,557 acres, with a pop., in 1831, of 18,211; and, m 1839-40, it expended £148 15:*. 5d., and made 9,393 dispensations of medicine to 4, 154 patients. In 1841, a Loan Fund had a capital of £316 interest free, and circulated £325 in 172 loans. The Coleraine Chari table Society, incorporated by a statute of 15 and 16 Geo. III., and the Coleraine Mendicitv Association, voluntarily formed in 1825, made weekly allowances to the poor, and had under their care a poor-house which, in 1832, had 32 inmates, and an income, chiefly from subscriptions and donations, of £359 18s. 7d. A benefaction to the poor of £20 Irish a-year was bequeathed by a Mr. Curtis.

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Colligan parish, anciently called Gloge

Colligan · parish · Waterford

The parish of Colligan in County Waterford was anciently known as Gloge. Colligan House stands near the Colligan rivulet amidst a wooded demesne, and the parish contains no church but has a Roman Catholic chapel with an attendance of 500.

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COLLKI AN — anciently Gloge, — a parish in the barony of Decies-without-Drum, 3} miles northnorth-west of Dungarvan, co. Waterford, Munster. Length, southward, 3^ miles ; breadth, from 3 furlongs to 2} miles ; area, 3,784 acres, 2 roods 38 perches. Pop., in 1831, 1,009; in 1841, 1,084. Houses 155. The highest and the lowest acreable value of the land is respectively £1 and 5s. 4d. The surface is drained by the Colligan rivulet, and bisi'cted by the road from Dungarvan to Clonmel. Colligan- House stands near the rivulet, amidst a wooded demesne. — This parish is a vicarage, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Lismore. Vicarial tithe composition, and gross income, X45 ; nett, £42 lis. 6d. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £90, and are impropriate in the patron. The vicar is also curate of another benefice in Lismore, and resides at Windford. There is no church. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 500; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapels of Clonea and Kilgobinet. In 1834, all the parishioners were Roman Catholics.
( OLLINSTOWN, a village in the parish of Kilcumney, baronv of Delvin, 3^ miles north-west of Castletown- Del vin, co. Westmeath, Leinster. Fairs are held on May 8, and Oct. 30. A dispensary here is within the Mullingar Poor-law union, and serves for a district of 8,490 acres, with a pop. of 1,927; and, in 18.'W 40, it expended £59 14s., and administered to JKK) patients. Adjacent to the village is Barbavilla. the seat of W. B. Smyth, Esq. Pop., in IK'^l, U.j; in 1841, not specially returned.

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Collon: Mellifont Abbey manor and royal grants

Collon · town · Louth · 1229–1612

The town and manor of Collon formerly belonged to the abbey of Mellifont. In 1229 the monks obtained from Henry II. a grant of a weekly market on Tuesday; in 1349 they received from Edward III. the right of free warren; and in 1612 they were proved by inquisition to possess a water-mill, 23 acres of land, tithes, and an annual rent from the town.

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COLLON, a snukll market and post town in the above parish, stands on the road from Drogheda to Ardee, M miles south by east of Ardee, 5} northwest of Drogheda, and 34 ^ north by west of Dublin. It is the neatest and most beautiful place of its class in Ireland; and owes the greater part of its attractions to the taste and liberality of the late Lord Oriel. The main btreet was built at the expense and from the designs of his lordship ; and is edificed with houses in the old Englibh style of architecture. The market- house occupies three sides of a small square. Even the cottages or cabins, in the poorest parts of the town, are, in most instances, whitewashed and roofed with slate. The church consists of three parallel aisles, surmounted by three spires; and is a handsome structure, in imitation of the ancient English style of architecture, and built chiefly after the designs and under the superintendence of the late Dr. Beaufort. A small stream passes through the town, and is spanned by a stone-bridge. A cotton manufactory and a bleacning-green were established to provide profitable scope for the industry of the inhabitants; and stocking-making and linen- weaving employ a considerable number of families. The dispensary is within the Ardee Poorlaw union, and serves for a district of 8,813 acres, with a pop. of 2,746 ; and, in l83d-40, it received £105, and expended £113 17s. Fairs are held on June 3 and Nov. 24. A mail-car passes through between Drogheda and Ardee The town and manor of Collon formerly belonged to the abbey of Mellifont In 1229, the monks obtained from Henry II. the grant of a weekly market on Tuesday in * their town of Collan.* In 1349, they received from Edward HI. the right of free warren in the manor; in the 15ih century they ** erected divers burgesses, and presented to them certain houses and lands in the town, under the name of burgages, on the express condition of ronbt^nt residence;" and, in 1612, they were proved by inquisition to possess in the paribh a water-mill, 23 acres of land, the tithes, and an ainiual rent of ^'6 13s. 4d. from the town. Area of the town. Gi acre:.. Pop., in 1831, 1,153; in 1^*41, 9.'J(). H(>ii'«!s 146. Families employed chiefly in iigricuhurt.', (>7: in manufactures and trade, 75; 111 oilier pur>uit.<<, 40. Families dependent chiefly on ITuperty and proies^iuii?, 13; on the directing of

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Collon: model town built by Lord Oriel

Collon · town · Louth

Collon, in co. Louth, is described as the neatest and most beautiful place of its class in Ireland, owing its attractions to the taste and liberality of the late Lord Oriel. The main street was built at his expense and from his designs, with houses in the old English style of architecture. The church, with three parallel aisles and three spires, was built chiefly after the designs of the late Dr. Beaufort.

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COLLON, a snukll market and post town in the above parish, stands on the road from Drogheda to Ardee, M miles south by east of Ardee, 5} northwest of Drogheda, and 34 ^ north by west of Dublin. It is the neatest and most beautiful place of its class in Ireland; and owes the greater part of its attractions to the taste and liberality of the late Lord Oriel. The main btreet was built at the expense and from the designs of his lordship ; and is edificed with houses in the old Englibh style of architecture. The market- house occupies three sides of a small square. Even the cottages or cabins, in the poorest parts of the town, are, in most instances, whitewashed and roofed with slate. The church consists of three parallel aisles, surmounted by three spires; and is a handsome structure, in imitation of the ancient English style of architecture, and built chiefly after the designs and under the superintendence of the late Dr. Beaufort. A small stream passes through the town, and is spanned by a stone-bridge. A cotton manufactory and a bleacning-green were established to provide profitable scope for the industry of the inhabitants; and stocking-making and linen- weaving employ a considerable number of families. The dispensary is within the Ardee Poorlaw union, and serves for a district of 8,813 acres, with a pop. of 2,746 ; and, in l83d-40, it received £105, and expended £113 17s. Fairs are held on June 3 and Nov. 24. A mail-car passes through between Drogheda and Ardee The town and manor of Collon formerly belonged to the abbey of Mellifont In 1229, the monks obtained from Henry II. the grant of a weekly market on Tuesday in * their town of Collan.* In 1349, they received from Edward HI. the right of free warren in the manor; in the 15ih century they ** erected divers burgesses, and presented to them certain houses and lands in the town, under the name of burgages, on the express condition of ronbt^nt residence;" and, in 1612, they were proved by inquisition to possess in the paribh a water-mill, 23 acres of land, the tithes, and an ainiual rent of ^'6 13s. 4d. from the town. Area of the town. Gi acre:.. Pop., in 1831, 1,153; in 1^*41, 9.'J(). H(>ii'«!s 146. Families employed chiefly in iigricuhurt.', (>7: in manufactures and trade, 75; 111 oilier pur>uit.<<, 40. Families dependent chiefly on ITuperty and proies^iuii?, 13; on the directing of

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Columbkill, Longford: Lough Gowna and Inchmore ruins

near Inchmore · townland · Longford

The parish of Columbkill in co. Longford embraces the southern expansion of Lough Gowna, described as the most beautiful sheet of water in Leinster and the reputed source of the Erne. The islet of Inchmore contains some ecclesiastical ruins, and Ernehead on the east shore is the seat of John Dopping, Esq.

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COLLUMBKILL, a parish in the hwoay of Granard, 3 miles west of the town of Oranard, eo. Longford, Leinster. Length, southward, 7^ miles s extreme breadth, 6^; area, 20,313 acres, 3 roods, Jbl perches,— of which 1,747 acres, 1 rood, 15 percfaes«aic Lough Gowna, and 55 acres, 3 roods, 4 pen:hei« ara ia in small lakes. Pop., in 1831, 8,544; iu 1841, Mlt, Houses 1,514. The surface is partly upland; prevailingly consists of second-rate land ; oontaiai a watershed between the sources of the Erne aid those of the Camolin, a tributary of the ShHiBiav and embraces the southern expansion of the intricately outlined and picturesquely acreened Lough Gouna or Gowna, the reputed source of the Eme, and the most beautiful sheet of water in Lcinfter. On the east shore of the lake is Emehead. the scat of John Dopping, £»q. ; opposite to this mimiir is the islet of Inchmore, containing some oonunon-plaoB ecclesiastical ruins ; at the head of the lake is the mRn^ion of Frankfurt; and on a beautiful piaowwi tory, a little to the north, is Woodville, the coMiC*
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Commandery of Knights of St. John at Castleboy, Co. Down

Castleboy · townland · Down · 1100–1199

A commandery of the Knights of St. John was founded at Castleboy (St. Johnstown) in the 12th century. Its buildings were long ago reduced to an amorphous heap of ruin, and its manor court and freehold townlands descended to the Echlin family.

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CASTLE-BOUY, or St. Johnstown, a parish 3 miles north of Portaferry, barony of Ardes, co. Down, Ulster. It consists of a main body and a Fniall detached district, the latter lying about a mile south of the former. Length of the main body, westward, 2 miles ; breadth, from f of a mile to li mile; area of the whole, 1,358 acres, 38 perches, — of which 12 acres. 3 roods, 17 perches, are water. Pop., in 1841, 775. Houses 151. The surface is waslied by Cloghy bay on the east, and diversified with Lough Doo in the west. — Castle. bony is not known as a parish in the ecclesiastical divisions. A commandery of the Knights of St. John wiis founded here in the 12th century ; and a manor court, and several townlands in freehold, which belonged to it, have descended to the family ef Echlin. The buildings of the commandery were long ago an amorphous heap of ruin.
CASTLE-CALDWELL. See Belleek.

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The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland

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Clonee village and Summerseat mansion

Clonegall manor and the Esmond family

Clonegall village on the river Derry

Clonenagh Bog near Mountrath

Clones fever hospital and dispensary

Clones market-cross with antique steps and pillar

Clones Poor-law Union and workhouse established

Clonfeacle: Church of the Tooth and St. Lugad

Clonfert abbey and St. Brendan's burial site

Clonfert and Kilmore bogs landscape

Clonfert as a derelict 'city' on the bog edge

Clonfert cathedral in Henry II style

Clonfert palace built by Bishop Dawson in 1640

Clonfert ruined church claimed founded by St. Brendan

Clongeen parish and its principal seats

Clongesh parish along the Shannon and Lough Forbes

Clonloghan parish on Shannon estuary

Clonmacnoise abbey's vast wealth and landed property

Clonmacnoise Castle ruins

Clonmacnoise Castle's remarkable mortar construction

Clonmacnoise: The Seven Churches and monastic ruins

Clonmeen Castle ruined in 1641 wars

Clonmel Franciscan friary founded by Otho de Grandison

Clonmellon ruins and Killua Castle

Clonmel Poor-law Union established

Clonmethan church built 1818

Clonmines extinct incorporated town on the Scar

Clonmore Abbey founded by St. Maidoc, Wexford

Clonskea corn-mills on the Dodder

Clontarf Castle and its Hospitaller history

Clontarf Castle and the Knights Templar

Clontarf parish church rebuilt 1609

Clontarf parish church reported in ruins, 1837

Clontead parish and its Catholic chapel

Clonturk House and Dhuval's mineral well

Clontuskert church built 1818 with Board of First Fruits gift

Cloonaff and the St. Patrick monastery tradition

Cloonclare parish contains Kiltyclogher and Manorhamilton

Cloondragh Island and Royal Canal Terminus

Cloonoghill Parish Antiquities: Castle and Old Abbey

Clough Castle in Danish Rath, co. Down

Cloydagh Church built in 1800

Cloyne: Ancient Episcopal City in Decline

Cloyne Cathedral Founded by St. Coleman

Cloyne Round Tower struck by lightning

Clydagh river and the mansions of Newbury and Dromore

Coal-Island coal mining district and its six coal beds

Coleman's Leap chasm at Killarney

Coleraine fever hospital

Coleraine half-barony basaltic landscape

Coleraine parish church, a very old building

Coleraine's decay and sod walls in 1618

Coleraine title of Baron to the Hanger family

Coleraine town planned by Sir John Perrott under Elizabeth

Coleraine workhouse contracted and built

Colligan parish, anciently called Gloge

Collon: Mellifont Abbey manor and royal grants

Collon: model town built by Lord Oriel

Columbkill, Longford: Lough Gowna and Inchmore ruins

Commandery of Knights of St. John at Castleboy, Co. Down