Cooraclare, also known as Kilmacduane, 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 118,817 ...
and part of 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 S ...
.
Current (2021) co-parish priest is Anthony Casey.
The main church of the parish is the St. Senan's Church in
Cooraclare
Cooraclare () is a village near Kilrush, in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name.
Location
The village of Cooraclare is in the parish of Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
It is from Kil ...
, completed in 1836. This is a cruciform church. It was built in the time that the parish was still united with
Kilmihil
Kilmihil () is a village in the Barony of Clonderlaw, west County Clare, Ireland. It is also a civil parish and an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. The area was officially classified as part of the West Clare Gaelt ...
. Stones from the mediaeval church in Kilmacduane were used for this building.
The second church of the parish is the St. Mary's Church at
Cree
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. This church was built in 1828 and predates the main church by several years.
References
Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe
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