School: Cill Mháille (C.), Inis (roll number 14469)

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   is:that the vicarage of Kilmaley was united to Drumcliffe in 1802.Of course he is speaking of the Protestant arrangement,but there might be something in it.They might be perpetuating some old Catholic tradition.Who founded Drumcliff?It is the parish church and the oldest in the Drumcliff of Ennis parish. Kilbricken in Doora we know something about.Professor O'Looney (uncle of Thomas O'Looney who wrote about Mt.Callan and whose mother is Maley from Kilmaley.His cousin Dan Maley in Gurtaganniv at the present day)edited the Clare portion of the Monasticon Hibernian for Cardinal Moran as editor in chief ,then Bishop of Ossory.He speaks about the Abbey in Ennis,the ruins of the parish churches of Drumcliff,Doora and Kilbrickan-all of undoubted antiquity,but,not a word about Kilmaley.Máille was no doubt somebody of importance,because there is also Templemaley near Ennis is called after him .It is to be feared however ,that he has no biographer .Ennis is in the Barony of the Islands(Uí Chormaic)and so is Kilmaley and the baronies show even now the tribal settlements -a modern barony representing a Tuath prersided over by Rí Tuatha a petty king .Therefore probably Drumcliff and Kilmaley were founded about the same time and by the same people who founded Doora and Kilbrickan.
   Liam O'Looney,
   London, 1932

   

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   Thomas Mc Gann

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   Age

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   Cloonlaheen, Co. Clare