Clonrush
Clonrush
Cluain Rois | |
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Civil parish | |
  Clonrush Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:52°57′03″N8°22′22″W/ 52.950784°N 8.372747°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Clare |
| Time zone | UTC+0(WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1(IST(WEST)) |
| Website | www |
ClonrushorClonmulsk(Irish:Cluain Rois[1]) is acivil parishin thebaronyofLeitrim,now inCounty Clare,Ireland.The largest settlement in the parish isWhitegate.
Location
[edit]Clonrush is 10.5 miles (16.9 km) to the southwest ofPortumna. It is 4.5 by 4.25 miles (7.24 by 6.84 km) and covers 11,850 acres (4,800 ha) of which 4,439 acres (1,796 ha) are inLough Derg. The parish includes a belt of low-lying land along the lakeside, rising into mountainous country. The road fromWoodfordtoScarriffcrosses the parish.[2]
History
[edit]The Clonrush graveyard was established around the 12th century in an early Christian settlement on a ridge beside Church Bay in Lough Derg. The parish church gave its name to the bay. A portion of the building remains, including a 12th-century window in the east gable, restored in the 16th century with cut limestone. In the early 1800s the church was used as a school, and was modified to accommodate a thatched roof. It is now ruined. There are records of a castle on the shoreline near the graveyard and a monument higher up, overlooking it. The graveyard contains a small vaulted house called St. Colman's Oratory, with a Gothic doorway from the 16th century.[3]
The parish in 1837 was in the Catholic union of Clonrush andInishcaltra,each of which held a chapel.[4] In 1841 the population was 3,115 in 516 houses. The parish in 1848 contained the hamlets ofWhitegate,Furnace and Fogarty's. At that time it was withinCounty Galway.[2] In 1898 the parishes of Inishcaltra and Clonrush were transferred from County Galway to County Clare.[5] Today the civil parish is part of the Catholic parish ofMountshannon-Whitegatein theRoman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. The church of St Flannan is in Whitegate.[6]
Townlands
[edit]Thetownlandsare Ballinrooaun, Ballyglass, Ballyhinch, Ballynakillew, Ballynamona, Bargarriff, Birchpark, Boleynagoagh North, Boleynagoagh South, Cappagha, Cappantruhaun, Cartron, Clonrush, Cloonmohaun, Cloonoolia North, Cloonoolia South, Cregg, Derrainy, Drummaanadeevan, Drummaan East, Drummaan South, Drummaan West, Furnace, Garraun, Garryeighter, Gortnascreeny, Gweeneeny, Illaunmore, Kilcooney, Kilkittaun, Lakyle, Meelick, Rinskea, Tintrim and Whitegate.[7]
References
[edit]- Citations
- Sources
- "Cluain Rois".Placenames Database of Ireland.Retrieved11 April2014.
- Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Clonrush".County Clare: A History and Topography 1837.Retrieved5 April2014.
- Madden, Gerard (1993)."For God or King-The History of Mountshannon, County Clare".East Clare Heritage.Retrieved5 April2014.
- "Map of Clonrush Parish showing Townlands".Clare County Library.Retrieved5 April2014.
- "Mountshannon (Clonrush)".Diocese of Killaloe. Archived fromthe originalon 7 April 2014.Retrieved5 April2014.
- O'Brien, Alfie (2014)."Clonrush Graveyard".Clonrush.eu.Retrieved5 April2014.
- "Clonrush".Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845.Retrieved5 April2014.