Westropp — On the CJmrches of County Clare. 121 



"We have no old authority for the extent of Corcovaskin and 

 Ibeickan, but their exclusion from the other early districts shows that 

 they are included in the rural deanery of Corcovasldn, and some 

 isolated hints imply that eastern Corcovaskin comprised Clonderlaw 

 and the parish of Clondagad. 



MoDEEisr Changjes and BuiLDIlSrGS. 



Ennis Priary was adapted as a parish church for the parishioners 

 of Doora and Dromcliff in 1615 at the expense of the Earl of" 

 Thomond. "We have no record of such adaptation in the cases of 

 Corcomroe and Clare, though in the eighteenth century a portion of 

 Oughtmama parish seems to have been annexed to the former as 

 " Abbey " Parish, while the old parish of Killoe, and a section on the 

 western bank of the Fergus, representing it may be the Kellargenayn 

 of 1302, were united to form " Clare Abbey " parish. 



Clonrush and Iniscaltra were assigned to Galway before 1610.^ I 

 have found no definite record of the transfer. It evidently took place 

 gradually, as there is an Elizabethan map in the Hardiman collection,^ 

 in which Iniscaltra is shown in Thomond, and Clonrush in Galway. 

 They are understood to have been restored to Clare in 1898, under 

 the Local Government Act. Inagh seems to have been merged into 

 Drumcliff in 1610. 



Hely Button, in the " Statistical Survey,"^ gives a series of parish 

 churches, among which appear several which cannot be identified. 

 In Bwrin, Glunning, Glenvaan, Crunane ; IncMqiiin, KiltuUogh, 

 Kilmacduagh ; Bunratty, Doroney, Coonock, Killeby ; TuUayh, Eren- 

 agheragh, Cruight ; Ihriehan, Innisclea ; Moyferta, Killenedane, 

 Kilnagleagh and MoUough. 



As for the modern Protestant churches, Lewis gives the following 

 dates, which, in some cases at least, mark the desertion or destruction 

 of an older building : — 



Clare Castle, 1813; Clondagad, 1808; Clonlara, 1815 (Belfry, 

 1831); Clonlea (Kilkishen), 1811; Ennis (struck by lightning and 

 repaired), 1817; Ennistymon, 1830; Eeakle, about 1823 ; "Kilfarboy," 

 i.e., Miltown Malbay, 1802 ; Kilnasoola, 1815 (older church removed) ; 

 KilmuiTy-MacMahon (old church removed), 1810; Eilnaboy, i.e., 

 Corofin, 1829 ; Kilquane, 1819 ; Kilrush, 1813 ; " Kilseily," 

 i.e., Broadford, 1811; Quin, 1797; " Eathbourney," about 1797; 



1 Speede's map. "• Table MSS. room, T.C.D. ^ p. 103. 



