TEMPLEQUINLAN, a parish, partly in the Eastern
Division of the barony of EAST-CARBERY, but
chiefly in the barony of IBANE and BARRYROE, county
of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 3 miles (E.) from
Clonakilty, on the road to Timoleague and on the Arigadeen
river; containing 1042 inhabitants. It comprises
2188 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe
act, and valued at £1614 per annum: the land is
generally good; the soil, though light, being very
productive, but agriculture as a system is altogether
unknown. The old heavy wooden plough is still used,
and much of the land is still cultivated by spade labour.
The weaving of coarse linen cloth is carried on in the
parish. At Ballinaroher are large mills, propelled by
the wafers of the Arigadeen, the property of J. Hayes,
Esq., where 6000 barrels of flour are annually ground
and chiefly shipped for England. Here are several large
and very neat houses, the principal of which is Castleview,
the residence of J. Hayes, Esq. The living is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Ross, and in the patronage of the
Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Duke of
Devonshire. The tithes amount to £58, payable to the
incumbent. Divine service is regularly performed in
the school-house. In the R. C. divisions the parish
forms part of the union or district of Clonakilty. The
remains of the old church stand on a gentle eminence,
and the burial-place is still used by persons from a
considerable distance; in it are the vaults of the Allen
family, to whom some extensive tracts of land were
granted by Cromwell in 1658. The extensive ruins of
Ballinaroher castle are situated on the south bank of the
river; it appears to have been erected to protect the old
ford here, which was the only pass between Bandon and
the entire south-western part of this country. Here was
formerly a good family residence of the McCarthys.