GENUKI: Kilcoona, Galway

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KILCOONEY, a parish, in the barony of CLARE, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Headford, on Lough Corrib; containing 1281 inhabitants. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Tuam, forming part of the union of Headford: the tithes amount to £198. 10.7¾ About 45 children are educated in a private school. St. Columb is said to have founded an abbey here.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of Kilcoona contained the townlands of:

Ballinduff, Ballybaun, Ballycasey, Ballydonnellan, Ballynew, Bohercuill, Bredagh, Crossursa, Fearagha, Gortnaporia, Inish, Kilgarriff, Kilroe, Knockereen, Luimnagh East, Luimnagh West, Manuslynn, Mausrevagh, Parkanallacan,

Land & Property

The entry for Kilcoona from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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