KILFLYN

In 1868, the parish of Kilflyn contained the following places:

"KILFLYN, a parish and village in the barony of Clanmaurice, county Kerry, province of Munster, Ireland, 7 miles N.N.E. of Tralee, its post town. A moiety of the surface is mountainous and boggy, the remaining half arable and pasture. A small stream, which drains it in the W., falls into the river Brick. The interior is traversed by the road from Tralee to Limerick. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, value with six others, £271. The church was built in 1811, by the late Board of First Fruits. There is a Roman Catholic chapel and a hedge-school. Grotto House is the principal residence. The village, which stands on the Tralee and Listowel road, contains a dispensary within the Listowel Poorlaw Union. Limestone is prevalent."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018