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Ordnance Survey Letters by John O'Donovan and Eugene Curry, 1839

Parish of Kilconry

  1. Situation; Name; Old Church; Fidh-Inis (Insula Sylvae) Island – situation of; Is the Fidh-Inis on which St. Senanus built a Church (according to his Life published by Colgan); No remains of Church or graveyard at present on the Island, nor tradition of the former existence of either; Old Castle (remains of) mentioned in College list as the Castle of Fynis, belonging to Brian na Feirry (Brian na Foraire – O’Brien?); Rineanny, the southern extremity of this Parish – the River Eanaigh mentiond ad. ann. 1564 in Annals of IV. Masters.
 

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