descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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Tuam BMD refs

1840's Ballydonnellan Site Centered Town Map at Past Homes.com

Kilcoona Civil Parish Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index

KILCOONEY, a parish, in the barony of CLARE, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Headford, on Lough Corrib ; containing 1281 inhabitants.

It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Tuam, forming part of the union of Headford : the tithes amount to £198. 10s. 7¾d.

About 45 children are educated in a private school. St. Columb is said to have founded an abbey here.

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