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"Clonamery", also Cloneamery, Cloneamera, or Clowen, a parish, in the barony of Ida, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 1 miles (S. E.) from Innistiogue, containing 777 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the left bank of the river Nore, and on the mail coach road from Dublin to New Ross, by way of Thomastown, comprises 3277 statute acres, of which 170 are woodland, 648 mountain and waste, 129 bog, and the remainder arable and pasture land. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming the corps of the prebend of Cloneamery in the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny, and part of the union of Innistiogue, in the patronage of the Bishop. In the R. C. divisions also it forms part of the union or district of Innistiogue; the chapel is at Clediagh. Here is a private school, in which about 60 boys abd 30 girls are educated. Bishop Pococke bequethed 116 planatation acres of mountain land, called Bishop's Hill, for the instruction of children, which is held by the Incorporated School Society. On a steep mound near the river stand the ruins of Clowen castle, belonging to the Fitzgeralds, and singularly divided into two parts. In a romantic creek up the Nore is Clodagh waterfall; it is a cascade of great beauty falling down a rugged precipice of about 60 feet.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

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Church Records

Civil Parish: Clonamery. RC Parish: Inistioge.
Earliest Records: b. Dec 1810; m. Jan 1827.

Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library)

 Civil           Roman Catholic          Time            FHLC 
parish           parish                   period           number 
Clonamery       Inistiogue              not available 
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Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

Townlands (1851)
 Parish               Townland          Acres   Diocese 
Clonamery       Ballygub New            1553    Ossory     
Clonamery       Ballygub Old            252     Ossory     
Clonamery       Bishopsland             190     Ossory     
Clonamery       Clonamery               554     Ossory     
Clonamery       Coolnamuck              493     Ossory     
Clonamery       Oldcourt                345     Ossory     
The civil parish of Clonamery contained the townlands of:
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