13
Localidades
906
Registros censales
161
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 458
- Hogares
- 85
- Personas
- 448 -2.2%
- Hogares
- 76 -10.6%
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Kilmurry is a small parish located in County Limerick in the province of Munster in southwestern Ireland. The parish sits within the broader landscape of the Golden Vale region, an area known for its fertile agricultural land and pastoral countryside. Like many rural parishes in Limerick, Kilmurry is characterized by rolling hills, farmland, and scattered rural settlements. The parish forms part of the ecclesiastical and administrative structures that have long organized communities throughout County Limerick, situated in the wider context of the county's geography between the River Shannon and the inland farming regions.
The parish of Kilmurry, like many Irish parishes, has roots extending back through medieval and early modern periods, when the Church played a central organizing role in local life. The name Kilmurry derives from the Irish "Cill Muire," reflecting the presence of an early Christian church or cell dedicated to Mary. Parish structures in County Limerick were formalized during the medieval period and refined through subsequent centuries of Irish history, creating enduring frameworks for community identity and organization that persist today.
As a small rural parish, Kilmurry's significance lies primarily in its role as a community unit within County Limerick. The parish church serves as a focal point for local religious and social life, as is typical of Irish parishes. Like many rural parishes in the county, Kilmurry reflects the agricultural character of its region and the continuity of parish-based community structures that remain important to Irish rural life, even as modernization and demographic changes have reshaped many aspects of rural Ireland.
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Baronía
Clanwilliam
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Nombre en irlandés
Cill Mochuaróg
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Griffith's Valuation
National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)
154 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 11 townlands (1830s-1850s).
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Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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- Cill Mochuaróg
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- Clanwilliam
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