Kilconickny is a

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in the county of

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, Connaught, Ireland.

Location

Kilconickny covers . It is mainly within the barony of Dunkellin, but parts are in the baronies of

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and

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. It is on the road from Loughrea to Galway, about from Loughrea. There is no bog in the parish. The name in the

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is Cill C’nuicne, meaning Conicne's church. The adjoining parishes are Bullaun, Kilchreest, Killeenadeema, Killogilleen, Kiltullagh, Lickerrig and

. There are graveyards at Bookeen and Tooloobauntemple.

Historical

Nicholas Carlisle in the 1810 ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'' described the parish as: As of 1837 the parish had 2,666 inhabitants. According to Lewis's ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'', 1837, The Kilconickny Loan Fund was one of seven Irish Reproductive Loan Funds in County Galway. It was a microcredit plan that provided small loans to the "industrious poor" in the parishes of Kilconierin, Lickerrig, and Kilconickny between 1838 and 1846. Many of the loans in Kilconickny parish went into default during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849, mostly due to death (38%), emigration (21%) or poverty (19%).

Kilconickny union

Records of the clergy of the parishes of Kilconickny union have survived from around 1398. The Anglican Kilconickny union was formed in 1735 when the vicarages of Kilconiran, Kiltullagh and Lickerigg were united. In 1810 there was no church or glebe house in Kilconicky. A church was built at Bookeen in 1815. In 1834 there were 8,806 people in the union, of whom 130 belonged to the Anglican

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. Kilconickny union was united with Killinane union in 1906, and in 1933 the church at Bookeen was closed. These were united with Loughrea in 1945. As of 2020 they were part of Aughrim union in the diocese of Clonfert.

Clostoken & Kilconieran parish

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parish of Clostoken & Kilconieran has its origins in Isercleran (the hermitage of Cleran), which holds the ruins of an old church from the 8th or 9th century called Kilkisheen (the little Church of the Ford of the Hurdles). The old church is near St. Cleran's House. There were three ecclesiastical parishes in the

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; Kilconickny (now Clostoken), Kilconieran and Lickerrig (now Carrabane). The three are now united in the large parish of Clostoken & Kilconieran.

Townlands

The

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s in the parish are: * Ardnadoman East * Ardnadoman West * Ballingarry * Ballybaun * Ballynamucka * Blackgarden * Boherduff * Bushfield * Caherhenryhoe * Cahernaman * Cahernamona * Cahernamuck East * Cahernamuck West * Cahertinny * Carrowclogh *

Carrowmore Carrowmore ( ga, An Cheathrú Mhór, 'the great quarter') is a large group of megalithic monuments on the Coolera Peninsula to the west of Sligo, Ireland. They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic (New Stone Age). There ...

Cloghastookeen Clostoken or Cloghastookeen is a small townland in the civil parish of Kilconickny, near the town of Loughrea in County Galway, Ireland. It takes its name from an old ruined castle. Name According to ''O'Donovan's Field Name Books'' (1862), ...

* Cloonoo East * Cloonoo West * Conicar * Coorbaun * Curraghroe * Doogarraun * Glenatallan * Gortawullaun * Gortnabarnaboy * Gortsheela * Kanargad * Killaspugmoylan * Kilmurry * Knockadaumore * Knockauncoura * Knockroe * Knockroebeg * Lackafinna North * Lackafinna South * Lackalea *

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh. Lurgan is about south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population ...

* Monearmore * Raheen Eighter * Raheen Oughter * Raruddy East * Raruddy West * Srah * Tonbaun * Tooloobauntemple

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* * * * * * {{authority control Civil parishes of County Galway