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Thomas Moland's Survey of County Clare 1703


A book of reference to the survey of the estate of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Thomond in the Kingdom of Ireland


BARONY OF TULLAGH

Parish of Kiltenanlea

Donassy Farm

Nedanora: Content 993a. 1r. 0p. Value £130. 0s. 0d. Distant from Limerick 4 miles, has on it an old ruined castle, two ordinary farm houses, and an old orchard and about 25 cabins.

Killeene: Content 491a. 0r. 0p. Value £114. 6s. 0d. Situate as the former, has on it an old decayed castle and three ordinary cabins.

Island Regan: Content 215a. 2r. 0p. Value £62. 12s. 0d. Situate as the former, has on it no improvements but one cabin and eel weir, worth about £4 per annum; bounded on the south by the river Shannon.

Donassy: Content 195a. 2r. 0p. Value £68. 5s. 0d. Joins to the former has on it a good stone house, stable, barn and other outhouses with orchard gardens and all in good order, lying on the Shannon side on which is a salmon leap and an eel weir worth about £4 per annum.

Coolesteige: Content 619a. 3r. 0p. Value £151. 7s. 6d. Distant from Limerick 5 miles, has on it an old castle a farm houses and 5 or 6 cabins.

Errinagh: Content 533a. 1r. 16p. Value £95. 9s. 0d. Situate as the former, has on it a ru-ined stone houses, an orchard hill in some order and 5 or 6 cabins bounded on the east by the river Shannon.
Total content [of Donassy farm] 3048a. 1r. 16p. Value £621. 15s. 6d.

The Farm of Annaghbeg

Cloncarrie: Content 153a. 0r. 0p. Value £45. 18s. 0d. Distant from Limerick 2 miles is bounded on the south by the River Shannon.

Derryfadda: Content 393a. 2r. 0p. Value £54. 9s. 9d. Distant from Limerick 3 miles, has on it about 13 cabins transpersed about the land and the wood is of oak saplings about 12 years growth.

Cappavilly: Content 311a. 1r. 0p. Value £50. 15s. 6d. Situate as the former has on it 5 farm houses and 4 cabins and a wood of young oak and ash which if preserved would be of con-siderable value; £50 value might now be cut of timber stripped of the bark.

Garranes: Content 144a. 1r. 0p. Value £46. 16s 0d. Distant from Limerick 2 miles, on it an old brick house, formerly a very good one, but now out of repair and almost a ruin, an or-chard and about six cabins.

Shramucky: Content 219a. 3r. 0p. Value £60. 16s. 0d. Distant from Limerick 3 miles, has on it a farm house and about 16 cabins, a wood of young saplings and half an eel weir set at £3 per annum.
Total content [of Annaghbeg farm] 1215a. 3r. 0p. Value £258. 15s. 9d.


Parish of Killallow


Ballycarnes: Content 469a. 0r. 0p. Value £39. 16s. 0d. Distant from Limerick 3 miles and has on the premises about 4 cabins.

Glaunlun: Content 323a. 0r. 0p. Situate as the former and has on it 7 cabins.

Agherinaghmore: Content 163a. 2r. 0p. Distant from Limerick 4 miles and has about six cabins on it.

Agherinabegg: Content 579a. 0r. 0p. Situate as the former is a good convenient farm and has on it about 12 cabins.

Knockanerbla: Content 68a. 0r. 0p. Situate as the former a parcel of mountain without any improvements.

Curubane: Content 191a. 2r. 0p. Distant from Limerick 11 miles and 3 from Killallow and has on it 8 cabins.

Currugare and Curhunakilly: Content 308a. 1r. 0p. Situate as the former and has 2 cabins on it.
Total Content 499a. 3r. 0p. Total value £67. 5s. 0d.

Lackanabranar: Content: 287a. 0r. 0p. Value £11. 10s. 0d. Situate as the former and has on it 2 cabins.

Mountain common to Carrabane, Carragare and Caherhunakilly: Content 953a. 3r. 0p. Val-ue. £15. 7s. 8d. No improvements.

Ballycuggerane: Content 325a. 1r. 0p. Value £31. 9s. 0d. Situate as Carubane and has on it 8 cabins.

Gortmagee and 4 tenements, with the fishing weirs at Killallow: Content 430a. 3r. 0p. Dis-tant from Killallow one mile and from Limerick 9 and 4 from Tomgrany has 5 cabins on Gortmagee.

Ballykilledea: Content 155a. 2r. 0p. Joins to the former and has on it 3 or 4 cabins.

Gorteahelrow alias Lackamore: Content 153a. 1r 0p. Situate as the former has on it no im-provements but a few sorry cabins.

Ballygarreene: Arable 47a. 3r. 0p. Situate as the former and has on it about 4 cabins.

Garranboy, Ballinduff, Lacknabane alias Balinacarrig: Content 304a. 0r. 0p. Joining the former has only one cabin on it.
Total Content 660a. 2r. 0p. Total value £96. 5s. 0d.

Clonfadda: Content 414a. 1r. 16p. Value []. 7s. 5d. Distant from Lymerick 7 miles and one from Killallow, it is a well improved farm having on it a good stone house slated, one storey high, with stable barn and other out houses; an orchard by the side of the Shannon and sev-eral enclosed parks which render it a commodious farm.

Parish of Kilfinaghta

Castle Cappagh: Content 227a. 2r. 16p. Distance from Limerick six miles has on it an old castle, two cabins and [illegible] firing in the bog belonging to the premises.

Cappagh Lodge alias Cappagh North: Content 150a. 1r. 24p. Value £46. 11s 0d. Situate as the former, has on it a good stone house built by the Lord Thomond where he used to reside when he came in these parts; a good stable, barn, brew house, store house, kill etc. and a pleasure garden with 2 orchards and an avenue to the house, very handsome which makes it a pleasant and convenient seat.

Lower Cappagh alias Oyl Mills: Content 139a. 2r. 0p. Value £45. 6s. 6d. Situate as the for-mer, has on it a dwelling house thatched, an orchard, 2 corn mills and a tuck mill and about 4 cabins.

Sixmilebridge Cappagh: Arable meadow and pasture including all the tenements of Sixmilebridge which are that side of river: Content 160a. 0r. 24p. Value £64. 0s. 0d. The town £112. 0s. 0d. Total value £176. 0s. 0d. On this land stands the town of Sixmilebridge on the south side of the river, consisting of about 20 good tenements and about 32 cabins; the tenements I compute to be worth about £5 per annum, taken one with another, valuing the cabins but at £1 per annum a piece, but the place improves everyday.


Ballysheene: Content 409a. 3r. 8p. Value £80. 6s. 0d. Distant from Lymerick 6 miles, has on it a good slated house and out houses.

Moygalloe: Content. 145a. 0r. 0p. Situate as the former, on it a good slated house and out houses, an orchard and 2 or three cabins.

Beallycullin, Gortnepishy meadow: Content 507a. 0r. 0p. Value £39. 7s. 0d. Distant from Lymerick 5 miles and one from Sixmilebridge; it is a mountain farm and has on it an old cas-tle and 2 or 3 cabins.

Corlea part of Moygalloe: Content 326a. 0r. 0p. Value £10. 17s. 4d. Distant from Limerick 4 miles is a coarse mountain farm but good bedding and shelter for black cattle in winter?; it goes with Moygalloe farm

Ballymulcashell part: Content 102a. 3r. 0p. Value £[] . 7s. 6d. Distant from Lymerick 8 miles and 2 from Sixmilebridge, consists of 2 parcels, about a quarter of mile distant from each other; there is a castle half of which only is said to stand on my Lord Thomond’s land and convenient out houses.

Parish of Feakle

Knocknehaneene: Content 347a. 3r. 10p. Value £10. 9s. 0d. Distant from Limerick 19 miles, from Gallway 17, from Ennis 13; there has been a fine wood on the premises but al-most destroyed, few of the young oaks remaining or anything of value, but some birch and ash trees and bald pikes fit only for the iron works; on it 2 or 3 cabins.

Fahyalurane: Content 2337a. 0r. 3p. Value £67. 5s. 0d. Situate as the former, has on it the ruins of an old chapel and there is in the wood some oak saplings which if care be taken of them will come to be good timber; there are likewise some decayed oaks fit to be sold to the iron works and is every day stolen away. There are likewise cinders of old iron works of which the people make money by digging them up and selling them to the iron works near the premises.

Gortigen alias Gortedune: Content 596a. 1r. 8p. Value £17. 2s. 6d. Gortigen has no im-provements but 3 or 4 cabins.

Knocknegehy alias Killanenagh: Content 433a. 0r. 0p. Value £18. 6s. 7d. Distant from Lymerick 18 miles, from Gallway 18 and from Ennis 13 miles. There is on the premises a young wood which if preserved will be of value.

Knockanenagh alias Killaneny: Content 124a. 3r. 3p. Value £5. 0s. 6d. Situate as the former has on it no improvements but 3 or 4 cabins.

Carrowkeile: Mountain in controversy. Content 1684a. 0r. 0p. Value £28. 14s. 0d. Distant from Lymerick 20 miles, from Gallway 22 and 16 miles from Ennis, has on it no improve-ments but 3 cabins.

Parish of Tullagh

Lisafin Farm viz. Ballyblood, Darragh, Cottenmore, Cottenbegg, Liscolane, Lissafin and Forhy: Distant from Limerick 12 miles and six from Ennis; the land is very good being a limestone soil and has on it an old castle in good repair and 18 or 19 cabins.

Munmore alias Moeghmore: Content 191a. 0r. 29p. Value £24. 4s. 10d. Situate as the former on it an indifferent good stone house thatched something out of repair; no other im-provements of any value.

Clonteene: Content 88a. 2r. 22p. Value £17. 14s 3d. Situate as the former has on it only one cabin.

Lackarowbegg part of Liscolane: Content 71a. 1r. 17p. Value £8. 12s. 0d. Distant from Lisssofin one mile no improvements but 4 or 5 sorry cabins.

Fomerly: Content 189a. 3r. 0p. Value £37. 15s. 0d. Value £37. 15s. 0d. Distant from Lymerick 11 miles and 2 from Tullagh, has on it a castle out of repair and the walls of an old house joining to it, an orchard and 6 cabins.


Parish of Killnoe


Cloonmoher: Content 93a. 3r. 5p. Value £6. 10s. 10d. Distant from Lymerick 11 miles and the same from Ennis, has on it no improvements.

Culreabegg: Content 272a. 3r. 36p. Value £16. 1s. 6d. Situate as the former, has on it an old castle out of repair and 2 or 3 cabins.
Total content 366a. 3r. 3p. Total value £22. 12s. 4d.

Parish of Tuogonila

Island Coskery: Content 159a. 0r. 0p. Value £29. 12s. 0d. Distant from Lymerick 12 miles and 4 from Killallow, has on it a very fine oak timber wood of well grown trees of which I compute there might be now sold the value of £1000 at the least.

Parish of Killurane

Tiravaneene farm

Tirravaneene: Content 334a. 0r. 12p. Part of Island Oughtarush alias Lackarow and Gortnapishy: Content: 80a. 1r. 0p. Craig Oughtarush: Content 86a. 2r. 0p. Tiravaneene farm is distant from Lymerick 9 miles and 7 from Killalllow, there is on the premises one farm house and seven cabins.
Total content [of Tiravaneene farm] 500a. 3r. 12p. Total value £47. 4s. 2d.


Moland Survey of Clare