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

Drumline

A parish in the barony of Lower Bunratty, 3 miles west by south of Six-mile-Bridge, and nearly the same distance south-east of Newmarket, Co. Clare, Munster. Length, 2 miles; breadth, ¾; area, 2,955 acres. Pop., in 1831, 1,182; in 1841, 1,327. Houses 187. The land is for the most part good; and the surface extends southward to a brief contact with the Shannon. The seats are Drumline, Smithstown, Ballycastlemore, Clonmaney, Firgrove, and Ballycuneen. This parish is a rectory, and a vicarage, in the dio. of Killaloe. The rectory is part of the sinecure benefice of TRADDERY. Rectorial tithe composition, £55 7s. 8¼d. The vicarage is part of the benefice of KILNASCOOLAGH. Vicarial tithe composition, £38 0s. 11d. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 5, and the Roman Catholics to 1,264; and there was neither church, chapel, nor school.

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