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From Ireland Home page>>Co Clare page>>Lewis Topographical Dictionary, Co. Clare>> Clouney or Cloney Civil Parish, County Clare, Ireland CLOUNEY
or CLONEY, a parish, in the barony of CORCOMROE, county
of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER,
3 miles (E. by S.) from Ennistymon,
on the road to Ennis ; containing 3371 inhabitants. This parish
comprises 9741 statute acres, which are mostly in tillage ; the land is
good and the system of agriculture gradually improving ; there is a considerable
quantity of bog. It is in
the diocese of Kilfenora ; the
rectory is part of the union and corps of the deanery of Kilfenora,
and the vicarage forms part of the union of Kiltoraght.
The tithes amount to £160, of which two-thirds are payable to the
rector and the remainder to the vicar. Divine service is performed in
the glebe-house of Kiltoraght. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Ennistymon, and contains a chapel at Tierlahan, near Kilthomas, in which a school is held ; and there are also two private schools, in which altogether are about 250 children.
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