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Kilnaughtin

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"KILNAUGHTIN, a parish in the barony of Iraghticonnor, county Kerry, province of Munster, Ireland, containing Tarbert, its post town. The parish is 3 miles long by half a mile broad. The surface, which lies along the banks of the Shannon, is boggy. The soil is generally poor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, value £67. The church was built about three-quarters of a century ago. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and a Methodist meeting-house, besides seven day schools. The principal residences are Tarbert House and Lislaghtin Abbey, near which are the ruins of Lislaghtin Abbey."

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Church History

The ancient parish church, dedicated to St Neachtan, is now in ruins in Kilnaughtin graveyard. The Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic churches built new places of worship in Tarbert, a modern town in the parish. These are St Brendan's (Church of Ireland) - built in 1814 and replacing an older building; and St Mary's Catholic Church dating from 1833.

In the Church of Ireland the area forms part of the parish of Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin, partly in County Limerick. In the Roman Catholic Church the parish has been renamed Tarbert.

There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Tarbert from about 1830 to 1955.

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[Last updated 12-Jul-2004 08:45 PM, Gaz3 v01.34, by Laurence Jones. ©2000]

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