Bodyke, also known as Kilnoe and Tuamgraney, is a parish in

County Clare County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,81 ...

and part of the

Inis Cealtra Inis Cealtra, also known in English as Inishcaltra or Holy Island, is an island off the western shore of Lough Derg in Ireland. Now uninhabited, it was once a monastic settlement. It has an Irish round tower, and the ruins of several small chur ...

grouping of parishes within the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe The Diocese of Killaloe ( ; ga, Deoise Chill Dalua) is a Roman Catholic diocese in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of ...

. It is an amalgamation of parts of the mediaeval parishes of Tomgraney (Tuamgraney) and Kilnoe. Current (2021) co-parish priests are Joe McMahon and Dariusz Plasek. The main church of the parish is the Church of the Assumption in

Bodyke Bodyke (; ga, Lúbán Díge) is a village in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in eastern County Clare in the Catholic parish of Bodyke. During the 1880s, a series of evictions in the Bodyke area were widely publicised. Location and ameniti ...

, in the part Kilnoe. This church was completed in 1845. It replaced a chapel built between 1740 and 1760. The second church of the parish is the St. Joseph's Church at

Tuamgraney Tuamgraney (; archaically spelled ''Tomgraney, Tomgrenei''; ) is a village in eastern County Clare in the west of Ireland and a civil parish by the same name. Situated a kilometre from the River Graney which flows into Lough Derg, it is an anci ...

. This church was built in 1892-1893 and replaced a chapel built in 1812. This chapel was built on swampy ground, rendering it unsafe.

Gallery

File:Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Bodyke - front.jpg, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption File:Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Bodyke - belltower.jpg, Belltower of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption File:Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Bodyke - altar.jpg, Altar of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

References

Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe {{Ireland-geo-stub