Kilmurry Ibrickane ( ga, Cill Mhuire Uí Bhreacáin), also known as Mullagh (Kilmurry Ibrickane), is a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

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 ...

that is located in west

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. A

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

of the same name also exists which is part of the historic

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Ibrickane Ibrickane (or Ibrickan) is one of the ancient baronies of Ireland.Placenames Database of Ireland
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. The parish derives its name from the tiny settlement of Kilmurry in Ibrickane, the location of the church before Cromwellian times. The main settlements in the parish are Mullagh,

Coore Coore (also known as Coor) () is a village in the parish of Kilmurry Ibrickane, near Mullagh and Milltown Malbay, in County Clare, Ireland. It is made up of two communities: Coore East and Coore West. Coore West is split into two parts: * Coor ...

and Quilty. The GAA club,

Kilmurry Ibrickane GAA Kilmurry-Ibrickane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Clare, Ireland. The club only plays gaelic football, and were Clare Senior Football Champions last in 2020, and won the Munster Senior Club Football Championship in 2004 ...

, is centred on the parish.

History

It is unknown when the parish came into existence. For a long period it was ministered together with the parish of

Kilfarboy Kilfarboy ( ga, Cill Fear Buí) is a civil parish in County Clare in Ireland. There is also a Catholic parish with the same name.

(

Milltown Malbay Milltown Malbay (), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point. The population was 829 at the 2016 Census. Name There is a townland on the southern edge of the town called Poulawillin or Pollawillin ...

). The "Register of Priests" in 1704 mentioned Fr. Teige and Fr. Francis Shannon as priests in respectively Kilfarboy and Kilmurry Ibrickane, but according to Ó Murchadha, there is little doubt that they in fact acted as priest and curate for both parishes. In the 1830s, the population of the combined parishes had risen to about 20,000 people, so a split became necessary. The priest and his curate, the brothers Anthony and Patrick McGuane, built two identical church buildings in Milltown Malbay and Mullagh. The

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prevented completion of the church in Mullagh. The planned tower and spire were never built. When Fr. Anthony McGuane died in 1839, his brother Fr. Patrick became the first parish priest of Kilfarboy. Their cousin, Fr. Edmund Barry, became the first parish priest of Kilmurry Ibrickane. Fr. Thomas Moloney, then curate at Kilmurry Ibrickane, was a supporter of the

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movement. During the Great Famine he worked tirelessly to get the word out of the disaster happening in Ireland, through newspapers and political contacts.

Parishes

In 1837, there were also a Church of Ireland parish and a

of the same name. Under the Civil Registration Act 2004, the records kept by the parish about baptisms, marriages and deaths, are official records. This makes the parish part of the Civil Registration Service.

Churches

* St. Mary's Church, Mullagh. Built 1839. * The Most Holy Redeemer,

. Built 1865-1866. * Our Lady Star of the Sea, Quilty. Built 1909, in the aftermath of the rescue of the seamen from the French freighter ''Leon XIII''.

List of Parish Priest

* Rev. Edmund Barry (1839-1860) * Rev. Patrick Moran (1860-1875) * Rev. James Cahir (1876-1914) * Rev. John Glynn (1914-1930) * Rev. Patrick Scanlon (1930-1932) * Rev. Patrick J. O'Halloran (1932-1947) * Rev. Peter Ryan (1948-1961) * Rev. Jeremiah Cahir (1961-1966) * Rev. Henry Kenny (1966-1969) * Rev. John Greed (1969-1972) * Rev. Thomas Murphy (1972-1980) * Rev. Michael Green (1981-1986) * Rev. Timothy Tuohy (1986-2001) * Rev. Patrick Larkin (2002–2013)Clerical changes in Clare parishes
/ref> * Anthony McMahon (2013-2018) * Donagh O’Meara (2018- )Widespread Changes In Line Up of Clergy In Killaloe Diocese
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References

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