Lewis Topographical Dictionary - OSi Online Shop

KIL
ture and trades, and an infants’ school, are about to be
added. The girls’ school has the advantage of the direc-
tion and general superintendence of Miss Adams, who
devotes her whole time to that object. There are some
interesting remains of the old church; and those of the
ancient castles of Glandore and Kilfinnan, which were
extensive, have been modernised and enlarged, forming
handsome residences previously noticed.—See GLAN-
DORE.
KILFEACLE, a parish, in the barony of CLANWIL-
LIAM, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
3½ miles (S. E. by E.) from Tipperary, on the road from
that place to Cashel; containing 2033 inhabitants. It
comprises 7152 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £7950 per annum. Some of the
land is of excellent quality, and good limestone is abun-
dant. A fair is held on July 10th, chiefly for wool
and lambs. Kilfeacle House is the residence of Mrs.
Scully. The parish is in the diocese of Cashel, and is a
rectory, forming part of the union of Tipperary: the
tithes amount to £369. 4. 7½. In the R. C. divisions it
forms part of the union or district of Golden, and has a
chapel near the Moat. About 80 children are educated
in a public and the same number in a private school.
There are the remains of castles at Grantstown and Cas-
tle Field, also a large Danish moat.
KILFEARA, a parish, in the barony of SHILLE-
LOGHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEIN-
STER, 2½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Kilkenny, on the river
Nore; containing 58 inhabitants. Here is a consta-
bulary police station. Kilfeara is the seat of H. Ryan,
Esq., and Sheestown, of J. Shee, Esq.; in the demesne
of the latter is a villa, the property and occasional
residence of J. Power O’Shee, Esq. It is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of
Burnchurch; the rectory is impropriate in Lady Tynte
Caldwell, to whom the whole of the tithes, amounting
to £32. 6. 1., are paid. In the demesne of Sheestown
are the ruins of an ancient church, which is the burial-
place of the Shee family.
KILFEDANE, a parish, in the barony of CLONDER-
LAW, county of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER, 4½
miles (W. S. W.) from Kildysart, on the river Shannon,
near its junction with the Fergus; containing 4165 inha-
bitants. It comprises 8981 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act, including a large tract of improvable
mountain and bog: the portion in tillage is generally
manured with sea-weed and sand. Culm is found at
Shanahea and partially worked. Within the parish are
the mansion and principal part of the demesne of Ca-
hircon, the seat of Bindon Scott, Esq., beautifully situated
at the confluence of the Fergus and Shannon, of which
an eminence near the house commands an extensive and
interesting view, embracing a large portion of the shores
of those rivers and the numerous islands by which their
estuary is studded. Adjoining the demesne is Clifton
House, lately erected by Bindon Scott, and not yet
tenanted; it occupies a beautiful situation contiguous
to the shores of the Shannon, of which it commands an
extensive view. There is a ferry from Clifton to Foyne’s
Island, on the opposite shore of the Shannon. The parish
is in the diocese of Killaloe: the rectory is impropriate
in Bindon Scott, Esq., and the vicarage forms part of the
union of Kilmurry-Clonderlaw. The tithes amount to
£267. 13. 10¼., of which £166. 3. 1. is payable to the
91
KIL
impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. In the
R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of
Kildysart: the chapel at Coulmeen is a large building of
recent erection; and at Cranny bridge, on the border
of the parish, is another. About 60 boys are educated
in a school, partly free, under the superintendence of
the R. C. clergyman; and there are four private schools,
in which are about 210 children. A school-house is
about to be built at Coulmeen by subscription. There
are some ruins of the old church. About 1780, when
an East India fleet took refuge in the Shannon, an en-
campment was formed in the deer-park of Cahircon.
KILFEGHAN.—See KILBRONEY, co. DOWN,
KILFEIGHNEY, a parish, in the barony of CLAN-
MAURICE, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTRR,
5 miles (S. W.) from Listowel, on the road to Tralee;
containing 1918 inhabitants. It comprises 11,972 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the land is chiefly
in tillage, but there is a large portion of coarse mountain
pasture, and some bog: limestone is quarried for manure.
The seats are Banemore House, the residence of R. J.
Palmer, Esq., romantically situated on the brow of a
mountain, which is extensively planted; and Braeside
Cottage, the neat residence of Hugh Studdert, Esq. The
parish is in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe: the
rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Cork, and the vicar-
age, with one-fifth part of the rectory of Ardfert and
the vicarage of Ballyconry, constitutes the corps of the
precentorship in Ardfert cathedral, in the patronage of
the Bishop: the tithes, amounting to £222. 6. 8., are
payable in equal portions to the impropriator and the
precentor. The glebe lands of the precentorship com-
prise 115 statute acres; and the gross value of the
dignity, tithe and glebe inclusive, is £207. 14. 10. per
annum. In the R. C. divisions it is partly in the union
or district of Abbeydorney, but chiefly in that of Lix-
naw. The ruins of the ancient church, in the burial-
ground, form a very picturesque object.
KILFENNY, a parish, in the Eastern Division of
the barony of UPPER CONNELLO, county of LIMERICK,
and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from Adare,
on the road from Croom to Ballingarry; containing
1136 inhabitants. This parish comprises 2361 statute
acres, of which 1650 are applotted under the tithe act;
about 320 are common and 90 bog, and of the remainder,
about two-thirds are under tillage, and one-third in pas-
ture. The surface is uneven, rising in some places into
hills of considerable elevation; the soil is in general
fertile, and the system of agriculture improved. Fairs
are held on the common on May 15th, July 14th, Sept.
12th, and Dec. 22d, chiefly for cattle. It is in the
diocese of Limerick, and is a rectory and vicarage, form-
ing part of the union of Nantinan and corps of the
precentorship in the cathedral of Limerick: the tithes
amount to £134. 18. In the R. C. divisions it forms
part of the union or district of Croagh and Kilfenny;
the chapel is a small edifice. There is a private school, in
which about 140 children are instructed. There are
some remains of the old church, in which is a tablet to
the Pigot family; and near it are the remains of Bally-
nakill House, which, having been converted into a bar-
rack, was burnt by the Rockites in 1822. At the foot
of a hill are the remains of Kilfenny Castle, built by
Cormac Mac Einery in the reign of John; it afterwards
belonged to the Kildare family, by whom it was
N 2