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that is situated on both banks of the

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near the city of

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Bunratty Lower Bunratty Lower is a barony located in County Clare, Ireland.Placenames Database of Ireland
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, Clanwilliam and the barony of the City of Limerick. Besides the suburbs of the city, it also contains the villages of

Ardnacrusha Ardnacrusha ( ga, Ard na Croise) is a village in County Clare, Munster, Ireland, located on the northern bank of the River Shannon. By road, it is north of Limerick. The name derives from the phrase ''Ard na Croise'' meaning "the height of th ...

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Parteen Parteen () is a village in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated in the townland of the same name that is part of the civil parish of St Patrick's. It is also part of an Ecclesiastical parish of "Parteen-Meelick" in the Roman Catholic Diocese ...

. It is known for the

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, a major hydroelectric plant.

Location

The parish lies on both sides of the River Shannon. As of 1845 the portion of the parish in County Limerick was partly in the borough of

, where it included the Chapelry of Singland, and partly in the barony of Clanwilliam. The portion in County Clare was in the barony of

Bunratty Lower Bunratty Lower is a barony located in County Clare, Ireland.Placenames Database of Ireland
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, and was known as the Kilquane district. It contains the village of

. The parish is and covers of the borough, of Clanwilliam and of Bunratty. The Blackwater river, which runs into the Shannon from the north, at one time powered flour mills. Ardnacrusha is the site of a major hydroelectric power plant driven by water diverted from the Shannon near Parteen Villa, and carried by canal to the site.

Antiquities

There are, or were, three castles. King John’s Castle was built by

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(ruled 1199–1216) at Parteen on the bank of the Shannon. Castlebank, a stronghold of the Earls of Thomond that was completely ruined by 1897, was not mentioned in the list of Thomond castles of 1580. It had probably not yet been built. Dromin Castle is also not in the 1580 list. The bridge at

has a Latin inscription saying it was made by Peter Creagh, son of Andrew, at the expense of the city of Limerick in 1635. In 1841 the total population was 4,132 in 656 houses.

Catholic parish

The name Kilquane (Cill Chuáin) means "church of Chuáin", the patron saint of the parish. The ruins of the church of Kilquane, with a graveyard beside it, stand in the townland of Kilquane near the Shannon. The site is about from the river on a low, sandy ridge that runs parallel to the river. It is flooded annually. It contains large tombs of members of the Holmes and Fitzgerald families. In 1849 Kilquane was part of the Catholic district of

, which also includes the parish of Killely or Meelick. It contained the chapels of Ardnacrusha, a handsome building of hewn stone, and of Parteen. Kilquane is now in the parish of St. Patrick’s in Parteen, a parish in the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick The Diocese of Limerick ( Irish: ''Deoise Luimnigh'') 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 St John's Cathe ...

Townlands

* Located in the barony of Bunratty Lower, in the county of Clare :: Athlunkard, Ballycannan, Ballyfinneen, Ballyglass, Ballykeelaun, Blackwater, Castlebank, Cloonoughter, Drummin, Fairyhill, Garraun, Gortatogher, Kilquane, Knockballynameath, Lakyle, Parkroe, Parteen, Quinspool North, Quinspool South, Reanabrone, Rosmadda East, Rosmadda West and Shannakyle. * Located in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the county of Limerick :: Park, Reboge, Reboge Meadows, Singland * Located in the barony of the City of Limerick :: Corbally, Grove Island, Reboge Island

References

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