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There is a small cemetery at Kilkee, which gives the town its name. The town contains a well dedicated to Saint Senán. About 2 miles (3.2 km) from Kilkee, on the edge of the cliff opposite
Bishops Island, there is a holy well dedicated to Saint Caoidhe. Bishops Island has two small buildings, an
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The first church in Kilkee had a cruciform barn structure, with two octagonal towers framing the entrance. Furnishing and decorating the church was a slow process, and seating in the main aisle was not installed until 1885. After many delays, a new church in Kilkee with a modern design was completed
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Kilfearagh has been leveled to the ground, but the large cemetery that surrounds it remains. There is another graveyard in the townland of Kildimo, dedicated to a Saint Dioma, no longer used. A third, named Cill-na-mban-órtha or "church of the pious women", is in the townland of
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were united by the late seventeenth century. In 1704 Daniel Gorman is recorded as parish priest of
Kilfearagh and Killard. Kilfearagh was served by the mass house at Corbally Cross until 1831. That year a parish church was opened in the growing resort of Kilkee. In 1854 the combined parish was
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A Hand Book for
Travellers in Ireland: Descriptive of Its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, Etc., with Various Statistical Tables. Also an Outline of Its Mineral Structure, a Brief View of Its Botany, and Information for
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in 1963, and the first church was torn down. Today the
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Bawnmore. Near this church there is a holy well with the same name. There was a Church of the Nuns in the townland of
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603:Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Kilfieragh".
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763:Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe
309:Bishop's Island, Kilferagh, Kilkee
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702:. Clare County Library
670:. Clare County Linrary
561:Fraser, James (1844).
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1454:Newmarket-on-Fergus
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1272:Diocese of Killaloe
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