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Kilfinaghta
Kilfinaghta ( ga, Cill Fhionnachta) is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland, located to the east of Sixmilebridge and northeast of Shannon. Geography The civil parish of Kilfinaghta lies in the barony of Bunratty Lower. It is in the southeastern part of the county and is bordered by Clonlea to the northeast, O'Brien's Bridge to the east, St. Munchin's to the southeast, Killeely to the southeast, Kilfintinan to the south, Feenagh to the southwest and Kilmurry to the northwest. It is divided into 31 townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic orig ...s: *Ardmaclancy *Ballycullen *Ballymulcashel *Ballynevan *Ballyroe *Ballysheen Beg *Ballysheen More *Bunnabinnia North *Bunnabinnia South *Cappaghcastle *Cappaghlodge *Cappagh North *Cappagh South *Cappan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixmilebridge
Sixmilebridge (), is a large village in County Clare, Ireland. Located midway between Ennis and Limerick city, the village is a short distance away from the main N18 road. Sixmilebridge partly serves as a dormitory village for workers in the Limerick city, Ennis and Shannon region, with a number of modern housing developments having been built to accommodate demand. History Evidence of prehistorical settlement in the area dates to the Bronze Age, and a number of ringforts, mounds, enclosures and wedge tombs are located in the parish. In antiquity, the name of the village was Cappagh (that name still present in local townlands), chiefly on the west side of the river, and Ballyarilla on the east. The name Cappagh is an anglicized form of an Irish word meaning a cultivated field, while Ballyarilla is named after the castle that once stood before Mount Ievers Court was built. An ancient name of the river appears to be Raite, today anglicised into Ratty; as the river flows past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunratty Lower
Bunratty Lower is a barony located in County Clare, Ireland. - Barony of Bunratty Lower This ancient unit of land division is in turn divided into fourteen . Legal context Baronies were created after the as divisions of and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officia ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon, County Clare
Shannon () or Shannon Town (), named after the river near which it stands, is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It was given town status on 1 January 1982. The town is located just off the N19 road, a spur of the N18/M18 road between Limerick and Ennis. It is the location of Shannon Airport, an international airport serving the Clare/Limerick region in the west of Ireland. History Shannon is a new town. Spearheaded by Brendan O'Regan, it was built in the 1960s on reclaimed marshland alongside Shannon Airport, along with the Shannon Free Zone industrial estate. The residential areas were intended as a home for the thousands of workers at the airport, surrounding industries and support services. Population growth was never as fast as planned throughout the first few decades of the town's existence. This was partly due to the proximity of 'friendly' places to live, such as Ennis town and Limerick city, or even the nearby village of Newmarket-on-Fergus. The 'planned' nature of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmurry-Negaul
Kilmurry-Negaul ( ga, Cill Mhuire na nGall) is a civil parish and a village in County Clare, Ireland. Location Kilmurry-Negaul is a civil parish containing a village with the name Kilmurry. It was within the barony of Tulla Upper, but as of 1845 had recently been transferred to the barony of Bunratty Lower. It is and covers . The village of Kilmurry-Negaul is north of Sixmilebridge on the road to Quin. There is a large tract of fine arable country of a light limestone where the parishes of Quinn, Clonlea and Kilmurry-Negral meet. Antiquity The name Kilmurry means "Church of the Virgin Mary", but originally the parish may have been dedicated to an Irish saint. A holy well near the old church is dedicated to Saint Tobar Faoile. The castle of Rossroe, well-preserved in 1897, belonged to Fineen, son of Loghlen MacNamara, in 1580. The castle of Drumullan was in 1580 the property of Covea, son of Mahone MacNamara. The parish lay in MacNamara territory, and the families of this pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feenagh, County Clare
Feenagh, or Finogh, Phinagh ( ga, Fíonach) is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. Location Feenagh lies on the east border of the barony of Lower Bunratty. The name means a plain overgrown with brushwood. Feenagh is to the northwest of Sixmilebridge. The parish has an area of , about half of it craggy and the other half fertile. In 1837 there were 2,632 statute acres as applotted under the tithe act. The parish contains the townlands of Ardkyle, Carrownalegaun, Cloghlea, Deerpark, Donnybrook, Feenagh (Moloney), Feenagh (Wilson), Newpark, Rath Beg, Rath More, Rossmanagher, Seersha and Springfield. There is a holy well at Rathmore, dedicated to Saint Mochuille. There are the ruins of an old castle at Rossmanagher. History In 1580 the castle of Rosmanagher was owned by the Earl of Thomond Earl of Thomond was an hereditary title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created twice for the O'Brien dynasty which is an ancient Irish sept native to north Munster. History and ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilfintinan
Kilfintinan ( ga, Cill Fhiontanáin) is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the Catholic parish of Cratloe. Name The name ''Cill Fintinan'' would mean "Church of Fintinan", but there is no known Irish Saint Fintinan. The name is therefore thought to come from ''Cill Fionn tSeanain'', or "Church of the fair Senan". Location The parish is in the barony of Bunratty Lower, and contains a small part of the town of Sixmilebridge. It contains the village of Cratloe. It extends south from this town to the River Shannon. The parish includes two small islands of Grass and Graigue in the Shannon. The road from Limerick to Ennis crosses the north of the parish. It is and covers . Antiquities and history The old church of Kilfintinan in the townland of Ballybrohan was almost entirely demolished by 1897. The church of Cruachán in the townland of Brickhill was in reasonably good condition. It was large, and surrounded by a large graveyard. There was another graveyard calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killeely
Killeely ( ga, Cill Liaile) is a civil parish that lies partly in County Clare and partly in County Limerick in Ireland. Location Part of the parish lies within the north liberties of the city of Limerick, but most lies in the barony of Bunratty Lower of County Clare, from Limerick on the road to Ennis, and bordering the River Shannon. The parish reaches east almost to the old Thomond bridge of Limerick. It reaches northwest from the Shannon, rising to a height of in the north. It is , covering in the Bunratty section, in the Barony of Pubblebrien in county Limerick and in the city of Limerick. Antiquities The patron saint of the parish is probably the virgin saint Faoile, of Atheliath Meadraidhe, in the county of Galway. The part of the parish in the city of Limerick has a graveyard called Killeely churchyard, but there is no trace of a church. In the County Clare portion there is the graveyard of Moneen-na-gliggin (the little bog of the sculls), still in use in 1897, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Brien's Bridge
O'Brien's Bridge or O'Briensbridge () is a village in east County Clare, Ireland, on the west bank of the River Shannon, in a civil parish of the same name. It is named for the bridge across the Shannon at that point, built by Turlough O'Brien in 1506. Location The parish of O'Briensbridge, which includes the village of O'Brien's Bridge, is in the barony of Tulla Lower. It was formerly part of the parish of Killaloe. It is and covers , including a detached district to the southwest. The parish is bounded on the east by the River Shannon. The narrow northern section in mountainous, rising to , and the western part of the parish is also upland. There were two castles in the parish. The one at the village of O’Brien’s Bridge was inhabited by Murtagh O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin, in 1580. It is now entirely gone. The other, Aherinagh, was still reasonably well preserved at the end of the 19th century. In 1580 it belonged to Donogh, son of Conor MacNamara. History The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clonlea
Clonlea or Clonleigh () is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. The main settlement is the village of Kilkishen. It is part of the Catholic parish of O'Callaghans Mills. Location Clonlea is in the barony of Tullagh. It is to the north of Sixmilebridge. It contains the village of Kilkishen. The parish is long and up to wide, covering an area of , some of which is covered by lakes. These include Lough Culleaungheeda, Lough Doon, Lough Clonleigh, Clonbrick and Castle-lake. There is a holy well dedicated to Saint Senán of Iniscathy on the edge of Clonlea lake. The ruins of the old parish church, and the burial ground, are on the southwest shore of Clonlea lake. The old ruin of Stackpoole overlooks the lakes of Pollagh and Mount Cashel. The parish covers 5,355 statute acres as applotted under the tithe act, mostly mountain and bog. The parish contains the townlands of Ballyvorgal (Beg), Ballyvorgal (North), Ballyvorgal (South), Belvoir, Belvoir Demesne, Cappalaheen, Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. Around 2.1 million of the country's population of 5.13 million people resides in the Greater Dublin Area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the , consists of a lower house, ; an upper house, ; and an elected President () who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the (Prime Minister, literally 'Chief', a title not used in English), who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Ireland
There have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht (Connaught), Leinster, Munster, and Ulster. The Irish language, Irish word for this territorial division, , meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Kingdom_of_Meath, Meath has been considered to be the fifth province; in the medieval period, however, there were often more than five. The number of provinces and their delimitation fluctuated until 1610, when they were permanently set by the English administration of James VI and I, James I. The provinces of Ireland no longer serve administrative or political purposes but function as historical and cultural entities. Etymology In modern Irish language, Irish the word for province is (pl. ). The modern Irish term derives from the Old Irish (pl. ) which literally meant "a fifth". This term appears in 8th-century law texts such as and in the legendary tales of the Ulster Cycle where it refers to the five kingdoms of the "Pentarchy". MacNeill enumer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Ireland
Civil parishes () are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial divisions. They were adopted by the Anglo-Norman Lordship of Ireland and then by the Elizabethan Kingdom of Ireland, and were formalised as land divisions at the time of the Plantations of Ireland. They no longer correspond to the boundaries of Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland parishes, which are generally larger. Their use as administrative units was gradually replaced by Poor_law_union#Ireland, Poor Law Divisions in the 19th century, although they were not formally abolished. Today they are still sometimes used for legal purposes, such as to locate property in deeds of property registered between 1833 and 1946. Origins The Irish parish was based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a ''túath'' or ''Trícha cét''. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman barons retained the ''tuath'', later renamed a parish or manor, as a un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
