KILCATHERINE

In 1868, the parish of Kilcatherine contained the following places:

"KILCATHERINE, (or KILCATERN), a parish in the barony of Bear, county Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles N. of Castletown-Bearhaven, its post town. It contains the villages of Caherkeen, Coulagh, and Eyeries. The surface forms part of the peninsula, stretching between the Kenmare estuary and Bantry Bay. The greater part of the parish is wildly mountainous and boggy. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ross, united with Bearhaven or Killeconenagh. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, and seven private day schools. At Allihies are large copper mines in operation. There are remains of an old church at Quoilah Bay, also a stone called a "gollane.""

"CAHERKEEN, a village in the parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, in the county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 5 miles to the N.W. of Castleton-n-Bearhaven. It is seated near Coulagh Bay."

"COULAGH, a village in the parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bear, in the county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles N.W: of Bearhaven. It gives name to a bay between Kilcatherine Point and Cod's Head."

"EYERIES, a village in the parish of Kilcatherine, barony of Bere, county Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 3 miles N. W. of Bearhaven."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018