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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Kilbroderan(aka Kilbradran)
description from Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
See Rathkeale Civil Registration District BMD refs & Glin BMD refs (vital records)
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KILBRODERAN, parish, in the Shanid Division of LOWER CONNELLO, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (N.W.) from Rathkeale, on the road to Shanagolden; containing 829 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the west bank of the river Deel, over which is a good bridge, called Newbridge, built in 1747, when the road was first constructed. It comprises 2824 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; about one-half is under tillage, and the remainder principally in large dairy farms, but in many parts the soil is so stony that its cultivation is much impeded. The whole substratum is limestone rock, in some places rising above the surface and in others scattered in large detached masses.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Limerick, and in the patronage of the bishop: the tithes amount to £220. There is neither church nor glebe-house; the glebe comprises six acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, called Coolcappagh, comprising also the parish of Kilcoleman; there is a chapel at Coolcappagh, in this parish, also one in the parish of Kilcoleman.
About 30 children are taught in a private school.
There are some
picturesque remains of the old church at the foot of Kilbroderan hill,
and at Rathgonin are the ruins of the old castle of that name.
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