Lisdoonvarna/Kilshanny

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Lisdoonvarna/Kilshanny
Roman Catholic parish
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Lisdoonvarna/Kilshanny
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°01′49″N9°17′22″W / 53.0303°N 9.2894°W / 53.0303; -9.2894
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Clare
Government
 •  Dáil Éireann Clare
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Lisdoonvarna/Kilshanny parish is a parish in County Clare, Ireland, and part of the Kilfenora Deanery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. The parishes Lisdoonvarna and Kilshanny amalgamated in the 1980s. [1]

Current (2021) parish priest is Robert McNamara. [2]

The parish is an amalgamation of the mediaeval parishes of Kilmoon, Killeany, Killilagh and Owghtory. [3]

The main church of the parish is the Church of Corpus Christi in Lisdoonvarna, built in 1868. [4] The second church of the parish is the Church of St. Augustine in Kilshanny. This church was blessed in 1894 by bishop Francis McCormack. This is a descendant of the earlier abbey by the Canons Regular of St. Augustine founded in 1189. [5] Third church is the Church of our Lady of Lourdes in Toovaghera. This church is built in 1878. [6] The coastal village Doolin has a church built in 1821 named the Church of the Holy Rosary. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ O'Dowd, Peadar (2010). The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. An Illustrated History. Booklink. ISBN   978-1-906886-33-2. p. 203, 204
  2. ↑ "Lisdoonvarna & Kilshanny". Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh & Kilfenora.
  3. ↑ O'Dowd, Peadar (2010). The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. An Illustrated History. Booklink. ISBN   978-1-906886-33-2. p. 203
  4. ↑ O'Dowd, Peadar (2010). The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. An Illustrated History. Booklink. ISBN   978-1-906886-33-2. p. 203, 205
  5. ↑ O'Dowd, Peadar (2010). The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. An Illustrated History. Booklink. ISBN   978-1-906886-33-2. p. 204, 206
  6. 1 2 O'Dowd, Peadar (2010). The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora. An Illustrated History. Booklink. ISBN   978-1-906886-33-2. p. 207


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