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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilkeary
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILKEARY a parish, in the barony of UPPER ORMOND, county of
TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
4 miles (S.E.) from Nenagh on the road to Cashel
town; containing 662 inhabitants.
It
comprises 2524 statute acres; the land is generally good and mostly under
tillage.
Greenanstown House is the seat of Count D'Alton.
The
parish is in the diocese of Killaloe, and is arectory, forming part
of the union of Ballynaclough and corps
of the deanery at Killaloe: the tithes amount to £120.
About
70 children are educated in a private school.
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