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

Templemaley

A parish in the barony of Upper Bunratty, 2½ miles north by east of Ennis, Co. Clare, Munster. Length, south by westward, 4½ miles; breadth, from 3/8 to 2¾; area, 4,648 acres, 3 roods, 23 perches,-of which 237 acres, 3 roods, 11 perches are in lakes, and 7 acres, 5 perches are tideway of the river Fergus. Pop., in 1831, 1,554; in 1841, 1,634. Houses 251. The surface descends from the east end of Lough Dromore, to a point on the river Fergus opposite the middle of Ennis; and it possesses a considerable variety of character, but on the whole consists of good land. Lough Dromore lies on the northern boundary; Lough Ballyallia, on the south-western boundary; and Lough Cleggan, on the western boundary. The principal residences are Edenview, Newpark-house, Cappaghard-house, Brockville, Drumconora-house, Ballymaley-house, and Ballyallia-house,¾ the last the residence of Andrew Stackpole, Esq.; and the other principal objects of interest are Ennis race-course, the ruins of Templemaley church, the ruins of three castles, the site of O’Brien’s castle, three forts, and a Roman Catholic chapel. The roads from Ennis to respectively Gort and Spancel-hill pass through the interior.¾ This parish is a vicarage, and part of the benefice of DRUMCLIFFE, in the dio. of Killaloe. Vicarial tithe composition, £55 7s. 8½d.; glebe, £1. The rectory of Templemaley forms part of the sinecure benefice of OGASHIN. Rectorial tithe composition, £49 16s. 11d. The Roman Catholic chapel stands at Barrfield, on the eastern verge of the parish; but is returned by the Commissioners of Public Instruction as within the adjoining parish of KILRAGHTIS. In 1834, the Protestants amounted to 13, and the Roman Catholics to 1,655; and a hedge-school had on its books 60 boys and 2 girls.

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