Clonrush
{{short description|Civil parish in County Clare, Ireland}}
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Clonrush or Clonmulsk ({{langx|ga|Cluain Rois}}{{sfn|Cluain Rois, Placenames Database of Ireland}}) is a civil parish in the barony of Leitrim, now in County Clare, Ireland. The largest settlement in the parish is Whitegate.
Location
Clonrush is {{convert|10.5|mi}} to the southwest of Portumna.
It is {{convert|4.5|by|4.25|mi}} and covers {{convert|11850|acre}} of which {{convert|4439|acre}} are in Lough Derg.
The parish includes a belt of low-lying land along the lakeside, rising into mountainous country.
The road from Woodford to Scarriff crosses the parish.{{sfn|Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845}}
History
The Clonrush graveyard was established around the 12th century in an early Christian settlement on a ridge beside Church Bay in Lough Derg.
The parish church gave its name to the bay. A portion of the building remains, including a 12th-century window in the east gable, restored in the 16th century with cut limestone.
In the early 1800s the church was used as a school, and was modified to accommodate a thatched roof. It is now ruined.
There are records of a castle on the shoreline near the graveyard and a monument higher up, overlooking it.
The graveyard contains a small vaulted house called St. Colman's Oratory, with a Gothic doorway from the 16th century.{{sfn|O'Brien|2014}}
The parish in 1837 was in the Catholic union of Clonrush and Inishcaltra, each of which held a chapel.{{sfn|Lewis|1837}}
In 1841 the population was 3,115 in 516 houses.
The parish in 1848 contained the hamlets of Whitegate, Furnace and Fogarty's.
At that time it was within County Galway.{{sfn|Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845}}
In 1898 the parishes of Inishcaltra and Clonrush were transferred from County Galway to County Clare.{{sfn|Madden|1993}}
Today the civil parish is part of the Catholic parish of Mountshannon-Whitegate in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
The church of St Flannan is in Whitegate.{{sfn|Mountshannon (Clonrush)}}
Townlands
The townlands are Ballinrooaun, Ballyglass, Ballyhinch, Ballynakillew, Ballynamona, Bargarriff, Birchpark, Boleynagoagh North, Boleynagoagh South, Cappagha, Cappantruhaun, Cartron, Clonrush, Cloonmohaun, Cloonoolia North, Cloonoolia South, Cregg, Derrainy, Drummaanadeevan, Drummaan East, Drummaan South, Drummaan West, Furnace, Garraun, Garryeighter, Gortnascreeny, Gweeneeny, Illaunmore, Kilcooney, Kilkittaun, Lakyle, Meelick, Rinskea, Tintrim and Whitegate.{{sfn|Map of Clonrush Parish showing Townlands}}
==References==
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- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Cluain Rois, Placenames Database of Ireland}}|url=http://www.logainm.ie/416.aspx |work=Placenames Database of Ireland
|title=Cluain Rois |access-date=11 April 2014}}
- {{cite book|url=http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/clonrush1837.htm
|last=Lewis|first=Samuel|year=1837|title=County Clare: A History and Topography 1837|chapter=Clonrush|access-date=5 April 2014}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.mountshannon.com/index.php/history/|publisher=East Clare Heritage|year=1993 |last=Madden |first=Gerard |title=For God or King-The History of Mountshannon, County Clare |access-date=5 April 2014}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Map of Clonrush Parish showing Townlands}}|url=http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/clonrush_townlands.htm
|title=Map of Clonrush Parish showing Townlands|publisher=Clare County Library|access-date=5 April 2014}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Mountshannon (Clonrush)}}|url=http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parish/mountshannon-clonrush/church.html|title=Mountshannon (Clonrush)|publisher=Diocese of Killaloe|access-date=5 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407080455/http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parish/mountshannon-clonrush/church.html|archive-date=7 April 2014|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.clonrush.eu/Clonrush%20graveyard%20home.htm
|last=O'Brien|first=Alfie|title=Clonrush Graveyard|publisher=Clonrush.eu|year=2014|access-date=5 April 2014}}
- {{cite book|ref={{harvid|Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845}}|url=http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/clonrush1845.htm
|title=Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845|chapter=Clonrush|access-date=5 April 2014}}
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{{Civil parishes of County Clare}}