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Counties Limerick & Tipperary
Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilnegarruff or Kilnegariff
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
Note: Roman Catholic parish records for those parishes that belong to the Diocese of Cashel and Emly are not available to the public
KILNEGARRUFF or KILNEGARIFF, a parish, partly in the barony
of OWNEY and ARRA, county of TIPPERARY,
and partly in the barony of CLANWILLIAM, county of LIMERICK,
but chiefly in the county of the city
of LIMERICK, in the province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (S.E.
by S.) from Castleconnell,
on the road from Limerick city to Dublin city ; containing
2361 inhabitants.
It comprises
2900 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and about 500 acres
of valuable bog. The land is based on limestone; part of it is extremely
rich and part sterile. Agriculture is improving rapidly, and the cultivation
of green crops has been introduced. Towards the western termination of
the parish there are several flourishing plantations, which form part
of the Earl of Clare's demesne.
The principal
seats are Thornfield, the residence of Major-Gen. Sir R. Bourke;
Woodsdown, of Major Gough; Mulcaher, of the Rev.
J. Crampton; and Rich Hill, of W. Howly, Esq.
It is a
rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, forming part
of the union of Castleconnell:
the tithes amount to £271 14s. 9 3/4d.. The church was destroyed
in the war of 1641, and was rebuilt, but is now in ruins.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it is also part of the union or district
of Castleconnell, and has
a large new chapel at Ahane.
About 200
children are educated in three schools, to one of which Gen. Bourke,
who built the school-house, subscribes 14 annually. here is a dispensary,
connected with that of Castleconnell.
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