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alias Cloacrowe, 1633; Cluaincpeaiii (O'Donovan). Fabric — It is 

 47 feet by 16 feet ; only the ends remained 1840. The east window, 

 very old, with lintelled splay and angular head of two stones ; walls 

 3 feet thick, of small stones. It still stood in 1901. (O.S.L., 8, 

 p. 161).i 



223. KiLBOLANE (54). — A parish, of which a fragment, with (I 

 think) no church site, extends from over the Cork border. 



224. KiLMEEDY (45). — A parish. Kelioda or Keilmide, in Ai'dagh, 

 dedicated to St. Ida, abbess, Jan. 15, 1410 ; Kyllmyde, in Corkemohur 

 and Polemynterquyller, 1586 (Peyton, p. 46). It also mentions Keilina, 

 alias Pailis, in Garth; and as Kilmeedy isinPallis townland, the first 

 may be a confusion with Killeedy. The patroness of both is variantly 

 named Derthrea or Deirdre, and (after her profession) Ita or Mide. 

 Fabric — It was appropriated to vicars choral, and rebuilt in 1665, and 

 again in 1837, as church of the union of Corcomohide. 



225. KiLMTJEEY (46). — Same. Confirmed to Mac Enery, 1605 (Pat. 

 E.); Kilmure, 1657 (D.S. (B), 5). 



226. KiLcoLMAN (46) — Same. The ruined chui'ch shown in 1657 

 (D.S. (P), 5, and Petty 71). 



227. CoECOMOHiDE, OK Castletown^ (38). — A parish. Eecordsofthe 

 manor are very abundant from before 1276, when Maurice f. Maurice 

 granted it to his son-in-law, Tho. de Clare, at the rent of a soar-hawk 

 (C.S.P.I., vol. iii., jS"o. 420). De Clare and his wife Juliana granted 

 Corkemoyd church to the Cathedral, c, 1276, and Juliana surrendered 

 its advowson, 1287 (B.B.L., pp. 93, 97). Granted to the deanery {ib., 

 pp. 98, 99). A weekly market was established 1284 (C.S.P.I., vol. ii., 

 ]S"o. 2283). The manor was held by R. de Clyfford, 1344 ; and Tho. 

 deClyfford, 1389 (Chancery Rolls). The church was destroyed in 

 war, 1302; Dionis O'Dowda was its vicar, 1388 (Pat. R.). It was 

 dedicated to, the Purification, Peb. 2, 1410. Copcamuiceac in 1420 

 (O'Huidhrin). Mac Eneiry built its castle in 1349 ; the tribe was 

 confirmed in its lands, 1605, which were confiscated, 1688. It was 

 eventually purchased by Capt. G. Conyers, 1703, whence its present 



1 View on Plate X. ■ 



2 Possible cliurcli sites, but without proof, may be at Kilrhus, in Corkmoyth, 

 held by T. de Clare, and claimed by John de Mariscis for Desiderata de Mariscis, 

 wbo held it from de Clare, 1297 (Plea R. 26 of xxiv Ed. I., ra. 46 d.) ; Kilchantain, 

 in same, near the edge of Cloncagh (D.S.(B) 2) ; and Killickydonnell, near Kil- 

 gobenet, 1612 (Pat. R., p. 19S, and D.S. (B), 2). 



