KILBARRON, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-ORMOND,
county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
5 miles (W.) from Burris-o-kane, on the road
from Killaloe to Portumna; containing 2590 inhabitants.
It comprises 7575 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act, and is chiefly under tillage; about
150 acres are called the Commons of Kearney. Coarse
limestone and a kind of red and white marble are found
here, and lead was formerly obtained. Here is a constabulary
police station. The principal seats are Annah,
the residence of J. Minchin, Esq.; Bellevue, of G. W.
Biggs, Esq.; Mota, of T. Pepper Roberts, Esq.; Gurthmunger,
of the Rev. R. Stoney; Annah Castle, of Joseph
O. Tabourdeau, Esq.; Kilgarvan, of E. Cambie,
Esq.; Waterloo Lodge, of the Rev. R. P. Vaughan;
Garrane, of W. Legge, Esq.; and Castletown, of C.
Cambie, Esq., a handsome castellated building on an
eminence near the Shannon, commanding beautiful
views of Lough Derg and the mountain scenery of
Clare and Galway. The living is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Killaloe, and in the patronage of the Bishop;
the rectory is impropriate in Capt. Ralph Smith. The
tithes amount to £360, of which £240 is payable to
the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar. The
church is a neat building, for the erection of which the
late Board of First Fruits gave £1000 in 1822. There
is a glebe-house, with a glebe of about 8 acres. In the
R. C. divisions this parish is the head of a union or
district, comprising also Terryglass and Finoe, and containing
two chapels. About 40 children are educated in
a public school, and about 150 in three private schools.
Here are the ruins of an ancient church, also of four
castles, called Cushlawn-Thullahawn, Cushlawn-Thigge-
Burht, Annah, and Ballycollaton. Island More, in Lough
Derg, containing about 130 Irish acres, belongs to this
parish, but is considered to be in the county of Galway.