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

Kilmaleery

A parish on the western border of the barony of Lower Bunratty, 1½ mile south-west of Newmarket, Co. Clare, Munster. Length, 2¾ miles; breadth, 1¾; area, 2,266 acres, 3 roods, 18 perches,—of which 13½ acres are water, and 55 acres, 3 roods, 25 perches are islands. Pop., in 1831, 667; in 1841, 737. Houses 104. The surface is part of the eastern seaboard of the estuary of the Fergus; and consists in general of good land. Within the limits are the seat of Carrowban, and the ruins of a church and three castles.—This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefice of KILNASOOLAGH, in the dio. of Killaloe. Vicarial tithe composition, £52 3s. 4¼d. The rectory of the parish forms part of the sinecure benefice of Traddery or Tomfinlough. Rectorial tithe composition, £73 16s. 11d. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 4, and the Roman Catholics to 712; and there was neither church, chapel, nor school.

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