KILCARRAGH, a parish, in the irony of CLANMAURICE, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 5 miles (S. W.) from Listowel, on the rivers Brick and Feale ; containing 1109 inhabitants.
It comprises 2912 statute access as applotted under the tithe act, of which 1280½ consist of good arable land, 891½ of coarse pasture, and 740 of bog. Limestone abounds and in some places approaches to marble ; it is generally burnt for manure, for which purpose sea sand brought from Cashen ferry is also used ; the state of agriculture is gradually improving.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and in the patronage of R. Dickson, Esq. ; it is held by faculty with, the vicarage of Duagh. The tithes amount to £96. 18s. 5½d., and there is a glebe of 12½ acres, subject to a rent of about one guinea per acre.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district
of Lixnaw.
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