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

Killurane

A parish in the barony of Lower Tulla, 2½ miles north-north-west of Broadford, Co. Clare, Munster. It contains the village of CALLAGHAN’S-MILLS. Length, 3¾ miles; breadth, 3½; area, 7,103 acres, 1 rood, 6 perches,—of which 293 acres, 11 perches are in Lough Doon, and 127 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches are in small lakes. Pop., in 1831, 2,942; in 1841, 3,058. Houses 480. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1841, 2,727. Houses 422. A large part of the surface is light and mountainous. The lake of Doon lies on the south-west boundary; and a part of the vale of the Ougarnee rivulet forms the west border. The road from Killaloe to Ennis passes along the south-west, and through Callaghan’s Mills.—This parish is a rectory and a vicarage, in the dio. of Killaloe. The rectory is part of the sinecure benefice of O’MULLOD. Tithe composition, £78 5s. 6½d. The vicarage is part of the benefice of KILSEILY. Vicarial tithe composition, £92 6s. 2d. But a portion of the tithes, compounded for £33 10s., is appropriated to the prebend of Tomgrany in Killaloe cathedral. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 900; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to the chapel of Killishen. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 15, and the Roman Catholics to 3,159; and 2 pay daily schools had on their books 118 boys and 81 girls.

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