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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Dromdeely or Tomdeely
description from Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
See Rathkeale Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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DROMDEELY, or TOMDEELY, a parish, in the barony of LOWER CONNELLOE EAST, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 1½ miles (W. by S.) from Askeaton, on the south bank of the river Shannon; containing 430 inhabitants.
It comprises 1275 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the land, which is nearly all arable, is generally light and much intermingled with limestone.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Limerick, and in the gift of the precentor of St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick; the rectory forms part of the union of Nantinan, and the corps of the precentorship: the tithes amount to £75, of which £50 is payable to the precentor, and £25 to the vicar.
In the Roman Catholic divisions, the parish forms part of the union or district of Askeaton.
Several islands
in the river Shannon belong to it; the largest is Greenish,
containing 45 acres. There are ruins of the old church, and, not far distant,
of Dromdeely castle, a small square tower built by the Mahonys,
and which, since the final expulsion of the Geraldines in 1580, has
been gradually falling into decay.
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