Kilkeary, County Tipperary

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

KILKEARY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER ORMOND, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. E.) from Nenagh, on the road to Cashel; containing 662 inhabitants. It comprises 2524 statute acres; the land is generally good and mostly under tillage. Greenanstown House is the seat of Count D'Alton. The parish is in the diocese of Kil-laloe, and is a rectory, forming part of the union of Ballynaclough and corps of the deanery of Killaloe: the tithes amount to £120. About 70 children are educated in a private school.

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