Ibrickane (or Ibrickan) is one of the ancient

baronies Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the Britis ...

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.Placenames Database of Ireland
- Barony of Ibrickane It is a geographical division of

County Clare County Clare ( ga, Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 ...

. It is sub-divided into four

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Legal context

Baronies were created after the

Norman invasion of Ireland The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land from the Irish, over which the kings of Kingdom of England, England then claimed sovereignty ...

as divisions of

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and were used for the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier

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túath which had submitted to the Crown.

Location

The barony of Ibrickane extends along the

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coast of County Clare. It is bounded by the baronies of Corcomroe (to the north),

Inchiquin Inchiquin ( ga, Inse Uí Chuinn) is a barony in County Clare, Ireland.Placenames Database of ...

(to the north-east),

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(to the east), Clonderalaw (to the south-east) and by Moyarta (to the south-west). It has an area of of which are water. The southern part is boggy, while the northern part holds farmland and moorish uplands.

Parishes and settlements

The barony contains the civil parishes of Kilfarboy, Killard and Kilmurry and part of the parish of Kilmacduane. The main settlements are

Milltown Malbay Milltown Malbay (), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point. The population was 829 at the 2016 Census. Name There is a townland on the southern edge of the town called Poulawillin or Pollawillin ...

, Doonbeg, Kilmurry and Mullagh.

References

Citations Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrickane, Barony of Baronies of County Clare