Kilconickny is a

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, Connaught, Ireland.

Location

Kilconickny covers . It is mainly within the barony of

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, but parts are in the baronies of

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and

Loughrea Loughrea ( ; ), is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It lies to the north of a range of wooded hills, the Slieve Aughty Mountains and Lough Rea, the lake from which it takes its name. The town's cathedral, St Brendan's, dominates the urban sk ...

. It is on the road from Loughrea to Galway, about from Loughrea. There is no bog in the parish. The name in the

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is Cill C’nuicne, meaning Conicne's church. The adjoining parishes are

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Kilchreest Kilchreest () is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland. It contains the village of Ballynacally and is part of the Roman Catholic parish of Ballynacally (Clondegad), which includes the civil parish of Clondagad to the north. Location Kilchr ...

Killeenadeema Killeenadeema () is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland. It contains most of the Derrybrien mountains, which hold the Derrybrien Wind Farm. Name The name in Irish is , where means "little church". Thus, it means "Chapel of Díoma". Locat ...

, Killogilleen,

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, Lickerrig and

. There are graveyards at Bookeen and Tooloobauntemple.

Historical

Nicholas Carlisle in the 1810 ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'' described the parish as: As of 1837 the parish had 2,666 inhabitants. According to Lewis's ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'', 1837, The Kilconickny Loan Fund was one of seven

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in County Galway. It was a

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plan that provided small loans to the "industrious poor" in the parishes of Kilconierin, Lickerrig, and Kilconickny between 1838 and 1846. Many of the loans in Kilconickny parish went into default during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849, mostly due to death (38%), emigration (21%) or poverty (19%).

Kilconickny union

Records of the clergy of the parishes of Kilconickny union have survived from around 1398. The

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Kilconickny union was formed in 1735 when the vicarages of Kilconiran, Kiltullagh and Lickerigg were united. In 1810 there was no church or glebe house in Kilconicky. A church was built at Bookeen in 1815. In 1834 there were 8,806 people in the union, of whom 130 belonged to the Anglican

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. Kilconickny union was united with Killinane union in 1906, and in 1933 the church at Bookeen was closed. These were united with Loughrea in 1945. As of 2020 they were part of Aughrim union in the diocese of Clonfert.

Clostoken & Kilconieran parish

The

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parish of Clostoken & Kilconieran has its origins in Isercleran (the hermitage of Cleran), which holds the ruins of an old church from the 8th or 9th century called Kilkisheen (the little Church of the Ford of the Hurdles). The old church is near St. Cleran's House. There were three ecclesiastical parishes in the

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; Kilconickny (now Clostoken), Kilconieran and Lickerrig (now Carrabane). The three are now united in the large parish of Clostoken & Kilconieran.

Townlands

The

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s in the parish are: * Ardnadoman East * Ardnadoman West * Ballingarry * Ballybaun * Ballynamucka * Blackgarden * Boherduff * Bushfield * Caherhenryhoe * Cahernaman * Cahernamona * Cahernamuck East * Cahernamuck West * Cahertinny * Carrowclogh *

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* Cloghastookeen * Cloonoo East * Cloonoo West * Conicar * Coorbaun * Curraghroe * Doogarraun * Glenatallan * Gortawullaun * Gortnabarnaboy * Gortsheela * Kanargad * Killaspugmoylan * Kilmurry * Knockadaumore * Knockauncoura *

Knockroe Knockroe is a townland containing a little over 363 acres in Moycarky civil parish and in the ecclesiastical parish of Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris, in County Tipperary, Ireland. Its population at the time of the 1891 census A cens ...

* Knockroebeg * Lackafinna North * Lackafinna South * Lackalea *

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* Monearmore *

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* Raheen Oughter * Raruddy East * Raruddy West * Srah * Tonbaun * Tooloobauntemple

Notes

Sources

* * * * * * {{authority control Civil parishes of County Galway