Standard Name:
Kilbeacanty
Irish Form of Name:
Cill Bheúcanta
Translation:
Begnat’s church
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Kilbeacanty
Cill Bheúcanta
Cill Bheúcanta
Kilbeakanty By. Surveyors Sketch Map
Kilbeacantee Engraved County Map
Kilbeacanty Lord Gort’s Agent Mr. Slator
Kilbeacanty Mr. John Bell, By. Constable
Kilveconty Printed Townland List
Kilbbeacanty Rev. John Ford, P.P.
Description:
Proprietor Richard Gregory, Esq., Coole, Post Town Gort. Agent E. L. Hunt, Esq., Ballynamantin Cottage, Post Town Gort. Let to 32 occupying tenants some having leases and more at will, average yearly rent 32s. per acre. Quit rent 2d. per acre. County Cess 3s. per acre. Size of farms from 2 to 25 acres. Soil rocky and sandy. Usual crops wheat, oats and potatoes. Bog scarce. Prevailing names Shaughnessy and Burke. Ruins of Kilbeakanty old church and graveyard in this townland. Walls standing. Kilbeakanty Roman Cathoic Chapel, newly built on the site of the old chapel, and accommodates from 5 to 600 persons stands in this townland. Fort Hill Cottage the residence of Mrs. Burke and forts with a cave is also in one of them in this townland. Loughnameeela and a small Lough without a name on the boundary. Pike and eel in Loughnameela. Authority Mr. T. Shaughnessy.
Situation:
In the centre of the parish of Kilbeakanty, Barony of Kiltartan and County Galway, North and South of a road leading to Loughrea, South of Loughnameil and West of Lougnahileleen.
Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:
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References to this place can be found in the following letter.
Area in Acres, Roods and Perches:
Land value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Building value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Total value at the time in pounds, shillings and pence:
Heads of housholds living in the townland at this time:
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