Clare Places: Kilquane: Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 1845

Kilquane

A parish on the south border of the barony of Lower Bunratty, Co. Clare, Munster. It contains the village of ARDNACRUSHA; lies 2 miles north of the city of Limerick; and is politically called North St. Patrick’s, and treated as part of the parish of St. Patrick’s of Limerick. Length, 3 miles; breadth, 2½; area, 3,894 acres, 1 rood, 8 perches,—of which 84 acres, 2 roods, 22 perches are in the Shannon. Pop., in 1831, 2,028; in 1841, 2,081. Houses 314. Pop. of the rural districts, in 1841, 1,945. Houses 297. The surface is bounded for 1¾ mile by the Shannon; is traversed through nearly the middle by the road from Limerick to Broadford; and consists variously of inferior and of very good land. The seats are Maryview, Belleview, Queen’s-borough, Springhill, Ballyglass, Annegrove, Fairy-hill, Parteen, Whitehall, and Quinville. The chief antiquities are the ruins of Kilquane church and Drumnan-castle.—This parish is a perpetual curacy, and a separate benefice, in the dio. of Limerick. Gross income, £100 16s. 11d.; nett, £87. Patron, the incumbent of St. Patrick’s. The church was built in 1819, by means of a gift of £646 3s. 1d. from the late Board of First Fruits. Sittings 120; attendance, about 80. The Roman Catholic chapel has an attendance of between 300 and 400; and is united to the chapel of St. Munchin. In 1834, the parishioners consisted of 102 Churchmen, 8 Presbyterians, and 2,067 Roman Catholics; a Sunday school was usually attended by about 150 children; and two daily schools—the one of which was salaried with £18 from the National Board, and the other with £10 from the rector of St. Patrick’s—had on their books 49 boys and 46 girls.

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