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

Kilfintinan, or Kilfentinan

A parish in the barony of Lower Bunratty, Co. Clare, Munster. It contains a small part of the town of Six-Mile-Bridge. Length, 3 miles; breath, 1¾ area; 6,115 acres, 12 perches, of which 16 acres, 2 roods, 4 perches, are tide-way in the Ougarnee river, and 9 acres, 22 perches are in Lough Gorteen. Pop., in 1831, 2,856; in 1841, 2,633. Houses 424. Chief objects of interest are noticed under the word CRATLOE. The surface extends along the Ougarnee rivulet, from Six-Mile-Bridge to the Shannon, and is traversed across the north by the road from Limerick to Ennis. One-half of the land is of the best description in the province; and the remainder is of a poor quality. The portion of Six-Mile-Bridge within the boundary contained in 1831, a pop. of 130; but is not noticed in the Census of 1841. This parish is a vicarage, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Limerick. Vicarial tithe composition and gross income, £70; nett, £65 3s. 4d. Patron, the Earl of Egremont. The incumbent holds the stipendiary curacy of Clondegad, in the dio. of Killaloe; and is non-resident in Kilfentinan. The rectorial tithes are compounded for £197 10s., and are impropriate in the Earl of Egremount. There is no church. Two Roman Catholic chapels have an attendance of respectively about 800, and from 500 to 600; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, are mutually united. In 1834, the parishioners were all Roman Catholics; and 4 pay daily schools had on their books 81 boys’ and 43 girls’.

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