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County Limerick
Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Coleman's Well or Clouncoragh (aka Colmanswell)
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Kilmallock Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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COLEMAN’S WELL or CLOUNCORAGH, a parish in the barony of UPPER CONNELLO EAST, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (N.N.W.) from Charleville (Co. Cork), on the road to Ballingarry; containing 821 inhabitants.
This parish comprises 4506 statute acres as applotted under the tithe act. It is watered by the river Maigue, which here forms the boundaries between the counties of Cork and Limerick. The land in every part is moderately good, and in the neighbourhood of Foxall and Drewscourt, where it is well farmed and planted, it is very fertile; the meadow land is considered equal to any in the county.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Limerick, and held in commendam by the bishop, or, according to some writers, forms part of the mensal see: the tithes amount to £110 0s. 10d. The church has long since fallen into decay, and the Protestant parishioners attend divine service in the parish church of Bruree.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Bruree, which is also called Rockhill, and contains a chapel.
The water of
St. Colman’s well is reputed to possess great efficacy, and is
held in high veneration by the peasantry of the surrounding country who assemble
here in great numbers on the anniversary of the saint and at other times
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