•  Kilmoylan, County Galway

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Kilmoylan like this:

KILMOYLAN, a parish, in the barony of CLARE, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 5 ¾ miles (S.) from Tuam, on the road from Mount-Bellew to Galway; containing 1788 inhabitants. This parish comprises the villages of Anbally and Doncanamore, near the former of which are the ruins of Anbally castle; there are also within its limits the remains of the castles of Tavanagh and Curofin. ...

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The principal seats are Curofin, that of Pierce Blake, Esq., and Armagh, of J. Bodkin, Esq. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Tuam, forming part of the union of Moylough; the rectory constitutes the corps of the prebend of Kilmoylan in the cathedral of Tuam, and in the patronage of the Archbishop. The tithes amount to £280, half payable to the prebendary and half to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Clare-Tuam; a chapel is now in progress of erection at Curofin. There is a public school, in which are about 80, and a private school, in which are 10, children.

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