Kilmoylan

Galway

Kilmoylan

KILMOYLAN, a parish, in the barony of CLARE, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 5.75 miles (s.) from Tuam, on the road from Mount-Bellew to Galway city; containing 1788 inhabitants.

This parish comprises the villages of Anbally and Doncanamore, near the former of which are the ruins of Anbally castle ; there are also within its limits the remains of the castles of Tavanagh and Curofin. The principal seats are Curofin, that of Pierce Blake, Esq., and Annagh, of J. Bodkin, Esq.

It is a vicarage; in the diocese of Tuam, forming part of the union of Moylough ; the rectory constitutes the corps of the prebend of Kilmoylan in the cathedral of Tuam, and in the patronage of. the Archbishop. The tithes amount to £280, half payable to the prebendary and half to the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it is part of the union or district of Clare-Tuam ; a chapel is now in progress of erection at Curofin.

There is a public school, in which are about 80, and a private school, in which are 10 children.

Kilmoylan

Limerick

Kilmoylan

KILMOYLAN, a parish, in the Shanid Division of the barony of LOWER CONNELLO, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, adjoining the post-town of Shanagolden, and containing 3326 inhabitants.

This parish is near the river Shannon, and comprises 14,197.75 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the land in the northern part is fertile and rests on limestone, but the southern parts are hilly. About one-third of it is under cultivation; the remainder is rough mountain pasture and bog. There are very few agricultural implements, as most of the land is under spade husbandry.

The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Limerick, and in the patronage of the vicars choral of Limerick cathedral, to whom the rectory is appropriate: the tithes amount to £232.7s.11d., of which one-third is payable to the vicar and the remainder to the lessees of the vicars choral. There is no church, glebe-house, or glebe.

In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Shanagolden, and has a chapel in the small village of Ballyhahill.

There is a private school, in which about 80 children are educated.

Here are the remains of Shanid castle, one of the principal fortresses of the Earls of Desmond, and from which originated their war cry of Shanid-a-boo: the walls are ten feet thick and forty high, and rest upon an artificial conical mound on the top of a hill, which rises abruptly from a fertile plain and is surrounded by numerous entrenchments. Near the castle is a spacious circular fort surrounded by embankments and fosses.