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

Kilmihil

KILMICHAEL, vulgarly KILMIHILL, a parish, containing a hamlet of the same name, in the barony of Clonderalaw, 8¼ miles west-north-west of Kildysert, co. Clare, Munster. Length, 5 miles; breadth, 4½; area, 18,772 acres, 3 roods, 2 perches,-of which 142 acres, 2 roods, 15 perches are water. Pop., in 1831, 3,794; in 1841, 5,080. Houses 860. Area of the village, 11 acres. Pop., in 1831, 79; in 1841, 118. Houses 23. Fairs are held on May 19, July 8, and Sept. 28. The parochial surface consists of arable and pasture land, intermixed with bog and mountain; and is washed and drained by the Creegh and Doonbeg rivers. The highest ground is in the north, and has an altitude of 554 feet; and the highest level of the Creegh rivulet, within the north border, is 493 feet.-This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefice of KILFARBOY, in the dio. of Killaloe. The vicarial tithes are compounded for £80 4s. 1d., and the rectorial for £118 3s. 1d., and the latter are impropriate in Lord Castlecoote and Bindon Scott, Esq. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of 900; and, in the Roman Catholic parochial arrangement, is united to one or two chapels within the benefice of Kilmurry-Clonderalaw. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 12, and the Roman Catholics to 4,068; and two hedge-schools had on their books 82 boys and 41 girls. The Kilmichael and Cooreaclare dispensary is within the Kilrush Poor-law union, and serves for a pop. of 7,635; and, in 1839-40, it expended £95 12s. 10d., and made 2,400 dispensations of medicine.

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