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Clonmore

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"Clonmore", a parish, in the barony of Iverk, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 2 1/2 miles (S. S. E.) from Piltown, on the mail coach road from Limerick To wateford; Containing 702 inhabitants. The principal seats are Silverspring and Cloncunny. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, united to those of Ballytarsney, and in the patronage of the Bishop. The glebe-house was built in 1817: the glebe comprises 11 acres. The church was erected in 1818, In the R. C. divisions this parish is in the union or district of Moncoin.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]

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Church Records

Civil Parish: Clonmore. RC Parish: Mooncoin
Earliest Records: b. Dec 1797; m. Jan 1772.

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 Civil           Roman Catholic  Time            FHLC 
parish           parish           period           number 
Clonmore        Mooncoin        1856-1880       0979702 
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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 
Clonmore        Cashel                  227     Ossory     
Clonmore        Clonconey               406     Ossory     
Clonmore        Clonmore                923     Ossory     
Clonmore        Graigavine              268     Ossory     
Clonmore        Killinaspick            265     Ossory     
The civil parish of Clonmore contained the townlands of:
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