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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Donoughmore (aka Donaghmore)
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Limerick Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
Donaghmore Parish, Griffiths Valuation Name Index
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DONOUGHMORE, a parish, in the county of the city of LIMERICK, province of MUNSTER, 2 ½ miles (S.E.) from Limerick City; containing 729 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the road from Limerick to Bruff, and comprises 821 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and about 97 acres of bog mostly cut out and reclaimed. The land is generally good, but, though so near the city of Limerick, the system of agriculture is in a very unimproved state; some of the land is de-pastured by milch cows and the produce sent daily to Limerick.
There are several handsome residences in the neighbourhood, of which the principal are Ballyseeda, that of T. G. Fitzgibbon, Esq.; South Hill, of S. Evans, Esq.; and Clonlong, of J. Norris, Esq.; and there are several substantial houses, the occasional residence of some of the Limerick merchants, who have farms in the parish.
Donoughmore is a prebend in the cathedral of Limerick, in the diocese of Limerick, and in the patronage of the bishop: the tithes amount to £92.6s.1½d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising also the parishes of Cahirnarry and Cahirnavalla; the chapel is a small thatched building nearly in the centre of the parish. (Note: in the article on Cahirnarry, Lewis refers to it as being part of the union or district of Donoughmore OR Knocknea)
The ruins of
the ancient parish church are extensive and venerably picturesque, consisting
of the walls and gables, which are tolerably entire and covered with ivy;
within the area are the tombs and monuments of the ancient families of Roche,
Kelly, Connell, and Fitzgerald.
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