Note: There is no civil parish by this name listed in the 1851 townlands directory, neither is there a townland
GRANGECLOVAN, or GRANGELORAN, a parish, in the barony of FASSADINING, county of KILLKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 1 mile (S. W. ) from Ballyragget, on the river Nore ; containing 949 inhabitants, and comprising 5611½ statute acres.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Burnchurch : the tithes amount to £47. 14s. 11d.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it is the head of a union or district, called
Conahy, which includes this parish and Maine,
and part of the parishes of Kilmocar, Coolcraheen,
Three Castles, and Burnchurch ;
and has a chapel at Conally.
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