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Coolkerry
Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
COOLKERRY,
a parish, in the barony of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN'S
county, and province of LEINSTER, 1 mile (E. by S.) from
Rathdowney, on the road to Castledurrow;
containing 375 inhabitants.
This
parish comprises 1720 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe
act. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory,
entirely impropriate in the Ladies G. and A. Fitzpatrick:
the tithes amount to £110, wholly payable to the impropriators,
who allow an annual stipend of £10 10s. to the vicar of
Aughmacart for performing the
clerical duties. The church is in ruins, and the Protestant parishioners
attend the church at Rathdowney.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Aghavoe. (Aghaboe)
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