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The majority of the parish of Kilcaskan was in County Cork; see this page.
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"KILCASKAN, a parish in the baronies of Bear and Glanarought, counties Cork and Kerry, province of Munster, Ireland, 10 miles E.N.E. of Castletown-Bearhaven, its post town. This parish is 16 miles long by 8 broad. A considerable portion of the surface lies on the N.W. shore of Bantry Bay. It is a mountainous and wild district, containing the summits of Hungry Hill, Esk, and Ghoul. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ross, value £285, in the patronage of the bishop. The church was built in 1810 by the late Board of First Fruits. There are two Roman Catholic chapels, also eight private schools. There are police and coastguard stations in the parish. The Lodge is the seat of the Earl of Bantry. There are ruins of a church situated among the hills; also of a fort at Drumlane. Slate, iron, and copper are worked."
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| Feaghna Graveyard, Gurranes |
| Feaghna Graveyard, Gurranes |
| St Fiachtna, Bonane, Catholic |
The ancient parish church and burial ground was in the portion of the parish in County Cork near the modern village of Adrigole.
In the Roman Catholic church the area forms part of the parish of Glengarriff. There have been chapels of ease at Bonane in the Kerry portion of Kilcaskan since the eighteenth century. The current church dedicated to St Fiachtna, dates from 1892.
A new church was built for the Established Church / Church of Ireland at Glengarriff in County Cork in 1863 but has since been abandoned.
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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