Kilnamona () is a village and a
civil parish in
County Clare,
Ireland
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. It is situated north-west of
Ennis
Ennis () is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in County Clare, with a population of 25,276, ...
.
Location
The parish of Kilnamona lies in the
barony of
, northwest of Ennis.
It is and covers .
The
townland
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of Soheen is detached from the rest of the parish.
Inagh
Inagh ( ; ) is a village and civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated 14 km west of Ennis on the Inagh River. It contains the villages of Inagh and Cloonanaha.
Location
The parish is part of the barony of Inchiquin.
The ''P ...
, to the east by Drumcliffe, to the north by Dysert and to the south by Inch and Kilmaley.
It is part of the Catholic parish of Inagh and Kilnamona
Inagh and Kilnamona is a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe in County Clare, Ireland. It is mostly coterminous with the civil parishes of Inagh and Kilnamona that lie to the west of the county town of Ennis in the ancient barony ...
.
Village
Kilnamona has a camogie club. The "Cill na Móna Pitch and Putt" 18 hole course opened for business in 1995.
The Catholic church of "St Joseph's" is in Kilnamona.
History
The parish contains the remains of old forts, a church and two castles.[ Magowna Castle was built by the O'Griffeys who by 1443 held both the rectorship and curacy of Kilnamona.][
In 1659, there were 480 inhabitants recorded (470 Catholics and 10 Protestants). The population grew rapidly up to the early 1840s, as in the rest of Ireland.
In 1831 the population was 1,767.]Great Irish Famine
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devastated the population.
The population dropped between 1841 and 1851 from 2,321 in 352 houses to 1,487 in 229 houses.
By 1861 the population had declined further to 864, and then remained roughly stable for the rest of the century.
By 1901 the population had shrunk to 718. According to the 2006 Census, there were 738 inhabitants of Kilnamona. This is an increase from the 699 recorded in the 2002 census.
In 1824, 141 children (139 Catholics and 2 Protestants) were being educated in the two hedge schools in the parish.
Notable people
* James Breen (born 1945), councillor and former independent TD
* Mike McTigue (1892–1966), light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1923 to 1925
Townlands
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 are Ballyasheea, Ballyknock, Ballymongaun, Ballynabinnia, Ballyneillan, Caherbannagh, Clooncaurha, Cloongowna, Cooguquid, Croaghaun, Derroolagh, Islandgar, Kilnamona, Knockacaurhin, Knockatemple, Leckaun, Magowna, Moarhaun, Mweelagarraun, Rushaun, Soheen, Shallee, Tooreen East and Tooreen West.[
]
References
External links
Clare County Library-Kilnamona
History of Kilnamona
Mike McTigue Official Website
{{Civil parishes of County Clare
Civil parishes of County Clare