KTLQUANE, a parish, in the barony of CORKAGUINEY,
county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER,
4| miles (N. W.) from Dingle, on the eastern side of
Smerwick harbour, on the western coast; containing
1982 inhabitants. This parish comprises 13,543 statute
acres, as applotted under the tithe act, of which
about one-half consists of coarse mountain pasture, bog,
and rocky cliffs. It includes the headland of Ballydavid,
where there is a detachment of the coast-guard
from the station at Ferriter's cove. Salmon is taken
at the mouth of the Moorstown river, which runs into
the harbour and partly bounds the parish on the south,
and some of the inhabitants are occasionally employed
in the fishery off the coast. The living is a rectory, in
the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, and in the patronage
of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £102. 15. 4½.
There is no church or glebe-house, but. there is a glebe
of 6a. lr. 20p. In the R. C. divisions this parish forms
part of the union or district of Keel or Ferreter. About
60 children are educated in two private schools. Some
remains of the old church still exist in the burialground.