Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KILWHELAN, or KILPHELAN

KILWHELAN, or KILPHELAN, a parish, in the barony of CONDONS and CLONGIBBONS, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 1 ½ mile (S.) from Mitchelstown, near the road to Kilworth; containing 343 inhabitants. For all civil and ecclesiastical purposes it has merged into the parish of Brigown. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Cloyne, entirely impropriate in Wm. Norcott, Esq. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Mitchelstown.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Kilphelan IrlPar       Condons and Clangibbon IrlBarony       Cork IrlC
Place names: KILPHELAN     |     KILWHELAN     |     KILWHELAN OR KILPHELAN
Place: Kilphelan

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