Clare Places: Parishes: Clooney: Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1845

Clooney, Clouney, Cloney or Clooney (near Rath)

A parish in the barony of Corcomroe, 3¼ miles east of Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Munster. Length, eastward, 5½ miles; breadth, from 3 furlongs to 4¼ miles; area, 10,225 acres, 2 roods, 36 perches, of which 17 acres, 28 perches, are water. Pop., in 1831, 3,371; in 1841, 3,077. Houses 478. The surface is moorishly tumulated, or prevailingly hilly and upland. About two-thirds consist of excellent pasture, or, as it is locally called ‘meadow;’ and the remainder is a mixture of bog and arable ground. The greater part of the soil is a fertile clay upon whinstone rock. The declination is to the west; the seaward side approaches within 2 miles of Liscanor bay; and the drainage is affected by the affluents and main stream of the Forsett river. The highest ground, Slievebeg, is situated on the northern boundary; and has an altitude above sea-level of 525 feet. The principal residences are Fort-House, and Ardmore; and the chief hamlets are Farnogue, Derreen, Monearnabricka, Parkbegnakilla, Reanagappa, and Magherareagh. The roads from Ennistymon toward respectively Corrofin and Ennis pass through the interior. This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefice of KILTORAGHT , in the dio. of Kilfenora. Vicarial tithe composition, £53 6s. 8d. The rectorial tithes, jointly with those of Kiltoraght, are compounded for £166 13s. 4d., and are appropriated to the deanery of Kilfenora. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 1,000; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to that of Kiltoraght. In 1834, the parishioners were all Roman Catholics; and 3 hedge-schools had on their books 170 boys and 77 girls.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1845
Courtesy of Clare Local Studies Project