CASTLE:-In Carrigaholt (3 miles from here) since Elizabethan times
WOODS:-Small wood surrounding above castle. Great scarcity of trees of all kinds elsewhere
LAND:-On the whole, good but 2 large bogs where turf is cut. Lisheen Bog and Doonaha Bog
USUAL CROPS:-Hay, oats, Potatoes with very little wheat or barley
DAIRYING:-Is extensive and milk supplies are sold to the auxiliary creamery in Doonaha. FOWL rearing negligible and PIG population generally on the decline
FORTS:-are to be seen in almost every field
BATTERYin Doonaha originally built to resist the French and Fenians?
DOONAHA CHURCHaccording to Bishop Fogarty, is the oldest in the Diocese having been built in 1803.In the porch is an old font which was dug up on the site when they were building the church.Tradition that father of Eugene O'Curry worked on its erection
BATT SCANLANsays there was another church in a field a the back of Mangan's forge before 1803. This was a thatched church and two men fought in it, one being killed so the church was closed
MOVEENThere was a church in a field at the back of Danl Gorman's - Moveen - field is still called Gort a' Phobail. Though a very old woman there Biddy Leairi says she never heard of a church there
Mrs Naughton,
Kilkee