Kilquane

Galway

Kilquane

KILQUANE, a parish, in the barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 3.50 miles (W.) from Eyrecourt, on the road to Loughrea containing 1674 inhabitants. This parish comprises 4801 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act.

It is a rectory, prebend, and vicarage, in the diocese of Clonfert ; the rectory is appropriate partly to the see; partly to the prebend of Kilquane in the cathedral of Clonfert, and partly to the vicarage, which forms part of the union of Dononaughta. The tithes amount to £112. 12s. 3.50d., of which £55. 7s. 8.25d., is payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £7. 16s. 11d., to the dean, £7. 16s 11d., to the prebendary, and £41. 10s. 9.25d,. to the vicar.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it is the head of a union or district, called Queenborough, comprising this parish and that of Fahey, in each of which is a chapel.

There are two private schools, in which about 200 children are educated.

Kilquane

Kerry

Kilquane

KILQUANE, a parish, in the barony of CORKAGUINEY, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 4.50 miles (N. W.) from Dingle, on the eastern side of Smerwick harbour, on the western coast; containing 1982 inhabitants.

This parish comprises 13,543 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, of which about one-half consists of coarse mountain pasture, bog, and rocky cliffs. It includes the headland of Ballydavid, where there is a detachment of the coast-guard from the station at Ferriter's cove. Salmon is taken at the mouth of the Moorstown river, which runs into the harbour and partly bounds the parish on the south, and some of the inhabitants are occasionally employed in the fishery off the coast.

The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £102. 15s. 4.50d . There is no church or glebe-house, but there is a glebe of 6a. 1r. 20p.

In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Keel or Ferreter.

About 60 children are educated in two private schools.

Some remains of the old church still exist in the burial-ground.

Kilquane

Limerick

Kilquane

KILQUANE, or, BALLYSHONBOY, a parish, in the barony of COSTLEA, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (S.) from Kilmallock, on the road to Kilfinane; containing 820 inhabitants.

This parish comprises 4112 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; the land in the lower part is tolerably good, and some of it is under tillage; but nearly one-half of the parish is mountainous and uncultivated, and the greater portion of the remainder is in demesne and meadow. The mountains form the range of Jamestown, Ballyhough, Ballyshondebuie, and Ballylopin, extending to the boundary of the county of Cork; they everywhere afford good pasturage for sheep and young cattle, and comprise about 2000 acres, much of which might be brought into cultivation. Among these mountains the unfortunate Earl of Desmond suffered many privations after his attainder in 1579, but the extensive woods and forests in which he took refuge, with the exception of those of Mount Coote and Riversfield, the former seat of Chidley Coote, Esq., and the latter of T. Weldon, Esq., have wholly disappeared.

It is rectory, appropriate to the see of Limerick: the tithes amount to £66.3s.1d., and the glebe comprises 12 acres.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilmallock.

There is a private school, in which are about 65 children.

Near Ballyshondehaigh is an ancient mansion, which was for many years the residence of the Hall family; near it are the remains of extensive fortifications. At the base of the mountain, near Mount Russell, are the remains of the ancient church, which tradition supposes to have belonged to an establishment of Knights Templars. Great numbers of human bones found in this parish, and supposed to be those of the followers of the Earl of Desmond, have been collected and interred in the grounds of Mount Coote, near the spot where they were discovered.