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

Gleninagh, or Glaninagh

A parish in the north-west corner of the barony of Burren, 13 miles north of Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Munster. It contains the villages of Glaninagh, MURROGHKELLY, and MURROGHTWOHY. Length, 2 miles; breadth, ¾ of a mile; area, 4,292 acres. Pop., in 1831, 545; in 1841, 886. Houses 146. Pop., in 1831, of the rural districts, 12; of the village of Glaninagh, 220. The surface contains the bold cape of Black Head, at the south side of the entrance of Galway bay; and is elsewhere broken and mountainous. This parish is a rectory, and part of the benefice of RATHBOURNEY, in the dio. of Kilfenora. Tithe composition, £32 10s. In 1834, the parishioners were all Roman Catholics.

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