KILGOBBIN, a parish, in the barony of CORKAGUINEY county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 7½ miles (W S. W.) from Tralee, on the Connor Hill road from that place to Dingle ; containing 2378 inhabitants.
It comprises 17,449 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; part of it is well cultivated. Sea-weed is much used for manure, and there, is a fine bank of shell-sand at Bunnavounder. On the side of the mountain of Cahirconree is a quarry of indifferent slate, and iron is said to exist at Carraduff : at Bunnow is a large flour-mill. There is a constabulary police station at Knockglass.
The principal seats are Garryhees, the residence F. Fitzgerald, Esq. ; Knockglass of Mrs. Ray; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. E. Day.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and in the patronage of the Bishop : the tithes amount to £422. The church for the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £850, in 1825, is a handsome building, with a square tower surmounted with pinnacles. There is a glebe-house, for the erection of which the same Board gave £250 and lent £550 in 1820 : the glebe comprises ten acres.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions this parish is the head of a union or district,
callad Cappaclough, comprising the parish of Kilgobbin and part
of Ballinvohir : the old chapel at Cappaclough
is in ruins, and a new building has been erected at Camp. At the latter
place are the ruins of an ancient castle. There are four private schools in
the parish.
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