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earth among the rocks. At Fierd is a chalybeate spring;
and manganese, adapted for making bleaching liquid, is
also said to exist there.
KILBANNON.—See KILBENNAN.
KILBARRACK, a parish, in the barony of COOLOCK,
county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 5½ miles
(N. E.) from Dublin, on the road to Howth; containing
170 inhabitants. The Grand Northern Trunk railway
from the metropolis to Drogheda will pass through this
parish. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, form-
ing part of the union of Howth; the rectory is appro-
priate to the prebend of Howth in St. Patrick’s cathedral,
Dublin, and the tithes are included in the return for
that parish. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the
union or district of Baldoyle and Howth. On the road
to Howth are the ruins of the chapel of Mone, commonly
called the Abbey of Kilbarrack, which formerly be-
longed to St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin: it is said to be of
great antiquity, and to have been built on the strand
near the great sand bank called the North Bull, for the
assistance of shipwrecked mariners; the ancient ceme-
tery, although unfenced and overgrown with weeds, is
still occasionally used as a burial-ground.
KILBARRON, a parish, in the barony of TYRHUGH,
county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, on the
road from Donegal to Enniskillen; containing, with
the greater part of the sea-port, and market and post-
town of Ballyshannon, 10,521 inhabitants. St. Columb
founded a church here, of which Barrind was bishop
about 590. According to the Ordnance survey, the parish
comprises 23,932¾ statute acres, of which 915¼ are water.
About half is arable; the remainder is meadow, pas-
ture, and mountain land, and there is a sufficient extent
of bog. In addition to the usual crops, great quanti-
ties of carrots and onions are raised in the open fields.
The Abbey river, which flows into Abbey bay, in Bally-
shannon harbour, contains eel, trout, and salmon; and
off the coast most kinds of sea fish are abundant,
but are preyed upon by a kind of small shark, or dog-
fish. During spring and summer here are many seals,
and the coast is frequently visited by large whales, and
great numbers of skate and thornback are taken with
the long line. Sandstone and whinstone are found at
Kildoney, and a kind of stone coal appears in the cliff
overhanging the sea; the seam is about 7 inches thick
and dips towards the land. In boring for coal, emery
has been, discovered about 12 feet below the surface.
The principal seats are Parkhill, belonging to the repre-
sentatives of the late J. O’Neil, Esq.; Cavan Garden,
the residence of T. J. Atkinson, Esq.; Cherrymount, of
Dr. Crawford; Camlin Tredennick, of I. Tredennick,
Esq.; Fort William, of W. Tredennick, Esq.; Danby,
of J. Forbes, Esq.; Wardton, of J. Folliott, Esq.;
Laputa, of J. F. Johnston, Esq.; and Cliff, of Col.
Conolly, who has greatly benefited this part of the
county, in which he is one of the largest proprietors,
having for many years expended at least £1000 per
annum in agricultural implements, flax seed, dispen-
saries, schools, and roads; in addition to which he has
expended large sums on the improvement of Ballyshan-
non harbour. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese
of Raphoe, and in the gift of Col. Conolly, in whom the
rectory is impropriate. Of the 44 townlands comprised
within the parish, only four pay full tithe, three are
subject to a small modus, and the remainder are tithe-
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free: the tithes amount to £45, of which £26 is
payable to the impropriator, and £19 to the vicar.
The church was erected in 1745, on an eminence near
the town, and is the principal landmark for vessels
entering the harbour. Divine service is also performed
in a school-house. There is a glebe-house, for the erection
of which a gift of £100, and a loan of £675, were
granted, in 1810, by the late Board of First Fruits:
the glebe comprises 316 acres. The R. C. parish is
co-extensive with that of the Established Church: the
chapel, in Ballyshannon, is a large neat building,
erected in 1795; another at Castleard was erected in
1832, and has a burial-ground. There are also places
of worship for Presbyterians, in connection with
the Synod of Ulster, of the third class, and for Wes-
leyan and Primitive Methodists. About 580 children
are educated in seven public schools, to one of which
Col. Conolly subscribes £8 annually; and about 310
are taught in ten private schools: there are also seven
Sunday schools. Near the glebe-house, on a stupend-
ous rock rising almost perpendicularly out of the sea,
are the ruins of the castle of Kilbarron, which is sup-
posed to have been inhabited by freebooters. Within
the parish are fourteen Danish raths; and in the har-
bour of Ballyshannon, at the mouth of the Erne, there
was formerly an island, called Inis Samer, where, ac-
cording to the Munster annals, was a religious house,
in which Flaherty O’Maoldora, King of Conall, or
Tyrconnell, having renounced the world, died in 1197.
There is a chalybeate spring in the parish.—See BAL-
LYSHANNON.
KILBARRON, a parish, in the barony of LOWER
ORMONDE, county of TIPPERARY, and province of
MUNSTER, 5 miles (W.) from Burris-o-kane, on the road
from Killaloe to Portumna; containing 2590 inhabit-
ants. It comprises 7575 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act, and is chiefly under tillage; about
150 acres are called the Commons of Kearney. Coarse
limestone and a kind of red and white marble are found
here, and lead was formerly obtained. Here is a consta-
bulary police station. The principal seats are Annah,
the residence of J. Minchin, Esq.; Bellevue, of G. W.
Biggs, Esq.; Mota, of T. Pepper Roberts, Esq.; Gurth-
munger, of the Rev. R. Stoney; Annah Castle, of Jo-
seph O. Tabourdeau, Esq.; Kilgarvan, of E. Cambie,
Esq.; Waterloo Lodge, of the Rev. R. P. Vaughan;
Garrane, of W. Legge, Esq.; and Castletown, of C.
Cambie, Esq., a handsome castellated building on an
eminence near the Shannon, commanding beautiful
views of Lough Derg and the mountain scenery of
Clare and Galway. The living is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Killaloe, and in the patronage of the Bishop;
the rectory is impropriate in Capt. Ralph Smith. The
tithes amount to £360, of which £240 is payable to
the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. The
church is a neat building, for the erection of which the
late Board of First Fruits gave £1000 in 1822. There
is a glebe-house, with a glebe of about 8 acres. In the
R. C. divisions this parish is the head of a union or
district, comprising also Terryglass and Finoe, and con-
taining two chapels. About 40 children are educated in
a public school, and about 150 in three private schools.
Here are the ruins of an ancient church, also of four
castles, called Cushlawn-Thullahawn, Cushlawn-Thigge-
Burht, Annah, and Ballycollaton. Island More, in Lough
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