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In relation to services at Punchbowl church I have just found this: At Meelick, in the county of Clare, only a short distance from this city, there is a Protestant parish church, the congregation consists of one policeman, from an adjacent station, and the clerk! [Limerick and Clare Examiner, May 27...

Would any person know anything about the building of the Church of Ireland church at Punchbowl Meelick? I understand that it was built by the Conyngham estate. It was the parish church for Killeely parish that stretched into Limerick city. I am particularly interested in knowing until when it remain...

Thanks Kerry

Many thanks Sheila.

Would anyone know of sources of information on these plantations in east Clare?
Meelick is anecdotally supposed to have received Cromwellian settlers.
In an early 1880s submission to a parliamentary commission the Conyngham estate
agent [a Keane] dates a Meelick settlement to the 1690s.

In the Limerick Chronicle of March 15, 1866 Mr Goggin of Meelick is reported as telling the Limerick Board of Guardians that
the Marquis of Conyngham had spent 4000 pounds giving employment to people to keep them out of the workhouse.
Most of Meelick was part of the Conyngham estate.

 Conversion. – The Rev. G. O’Sullivan P.P., Parteen, and Meelick, writes as follows to the Limerick Reporter: – James Frost, Esq., of Derra, a highly intelligent and respectable farmer, and formerly one of the guardians of the Limerick union, openly renounced the errors of Protestantism on Sunday l...

The Library website gives an account of the career of the Dean. In March 1867, in the immediate aftermath of the Fenian rising, he took part in a meeting in Ennis that condemned the rising. At the same time he called on the government not to be severe in its ongoing repressive actions. In addition h...

In the aftermath of the Fenian Rising of 1867 the question of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland arose. Gladstone had disestablishment passed into law in 1869. At a meeting of Catholics held in Limerick in March 1868 to advocate the disendowment of the Established Church the following dep...

The fabric of the parish of Clonfert in south east Galway
includes an acreage of land at the disposal of the parish priest.
Does anyone know of such arrangements now or in the past
in county Clare parishes?

The Gasthof was also called the Dell and the premises is mentioned in an article on
Lahinch carried on the County Library website.

Thanks Lenc.
I have found the premises on two photos.
Paddy Brennan was a significant War of Independence figure in Clare.

Would anyone have memories or knowledge of a guest house in Lahinch near the sea front
called GASTHOF and owned by a Paddy Brennan of Meelick? I saw it in the late forties.
The term means guest house in German.

Many thanks for replies
What interested me was the preponderance of grazing and the
role of the herdsmen - called the herds.
And the balance between grazing and milk production.

Would anyone know of sources of information on agricultural practice
in the Burren in the nineteenth century?