Connello Lower

{{Short description|Barony in County Limerick, Ireland}}

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Connello Lower

| native_name = Conallaigh Íochtaracha (Irish)

| settlement_type = Barony

| image_skyline =River Deel - geograph.org.uk - 581931.jpg

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| image_caption = The River Deel near Rathkeale

| image_map =Baronies of Limerick.jpg

|pushpin_map = Ireland

|coordinates={{coord|52.54|-8.96|format=dms|dim:15000|display=it}}

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| map_caption = Barony map of County Limerick, 1900; Connello Lower is in the northwest, coloured yellow.

| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = Ireland

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Munster

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Limerick

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| area_total_km2 =193.6

| area_total_sq_mi =74.8

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Connello Lower ({{irish place name|Conallaigh Íochtaracha}}; sometimes Lower Connello,{{Cite web|url=https://druidikal.wordpress.com/ocollins-lords-of-lower-connello-county-limerick/|title=O'Collins Lords of Lower Connello, County Limerick|date=10 July 2016}} and occasionally spelled Conello){{Cite web|url=https://vinhanley.com/2017/10/17/%EF%BB%BFearly-divisions-in-ireland-the-origins-of-our-counties-baronies-parishes-and-townlands/|title=Early Divisions in Ireland – The Origins of our Counties, Baronies, Parishes and Townlands.|first=Vincent|last=Hanley|date=17 October 2017}} is a historical barony in northwest County Limerick, Ireland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/connello-lower/|title=Connello Lower|website=www.townlands.ie}}The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1814-45. (1846:215–6). Ireland: A. Fullarton and Company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townlands.ie/limerick/shanid2/|title=Connello Lower|website=www.townlands.ie}}

Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units.{{Cite web|url=https://landedestates.ie/barony/361|title=CoshleaBarony | Landed Estates | University of Galway|website=landedestates.ie}} They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.{{cite book |author=General Register Office of Ireland |title=Census of Ireland 1901: General topographical index |chapter-url=http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20(by%20date)/1901/Ireland&active=yes&mno=453&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=3800&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank |series=Command papers |volume=Cd. 2071 |year=1904 |publisher=HMSO |pages=966–978 |chapter=Alphabetical index to the baronies of Ireland}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni0NAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Athlone+North%22++&pg=RA1-PA79|title=Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and of the Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland: Presented to Both Houses of the Oireachtas|first=Ireland Public Record|last=Office|date=12 February 1891|publisher=Stationery Office.|via=Google Books}}