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| | Doon, Tipperary & Limerick , Lewis 1837©Jane Lyons |
 | | DOON, a parish, partly in the barony of KILNEMANAGH, county of TIPPERARY and partly in the barony of OWNEYBEG, but chiefly in that of COONAGH, county of LIMERICK, and province of Munster, 14 miles (S.E.) from Limerick, on the old road to Templemore; containing 5311 inhabitants, of which number 178 are in the village. |
 | | Marshall, formerly a priory of Canons regular and a cell to the abbey of Inchenemeo, granted on its dissolution by Queen Elizabeth to Miller Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, and of which there are still some remains; Bilboa House, now nearly in ruins, the property of the Earl of Stradbroke, and formerly the residence of Col. |
 | | The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Emly, constituting the prebend of Doon in the cathedral of St. Ailbe, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Cashel; The tithes amount to £830 15S. |
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