description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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KILCOAN, a parish, in the barony of IDA, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER; containing 441 inhabitants, and 2075 statute acres.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, episcopally united in 1779 to Kilbride, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £113. 1s. 11½d., and of the union, to £158. 1s. 11½d.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Slieruagh.

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