descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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KILBENNAN, or KILBANNON, a parish, partly in the barony of CLARE, but chiefly in that of DUNMORE, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 2 ½ miles (N. N. W.) from Tuam, on the road to Hollymount ; containing 2561 inhabitants.

A religious house was anciently established here, of which no other record exists but that it was granted, after the dissolution, to the burgesses of Athenry ; it would appear to have been of great antiquity, as there is still renaming a portion, 50 feet high, if one of those ancient round towers found generally near the site of the earliest religious establishments.

The parish is in the diocese of Tuam ; the rectory is appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of Tuam, and the vicarage forms part of the union of Tuam ; the tithes amount to £106. 3s. 1d., which is equally divided between the vicars choral and the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilconly ; the chapel is a small thatched building.

There are two private schools, in which are about 170 children.

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