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| | Clane Civil Parish, County Kildare, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | CLANE, a post-town and parish (formerly a market-town), in the barony of CLANE, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Naas, and 14 miles (W.S.W.)from Dublin city ; containing 2121 inhabitants, of which number, 1031 are in the town, |
 | | The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, episcopally united to the vicarages of Mainham and Clonshamboe, and to the rectory of Killybegs, together forming the union of Clane, the patronagenof which is disputed by Lord Kingsland : the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of Lord Falconberg. |
 | | About a mile from Clane, but in the parish of Mainham, is Clongowes Wood College, formerly Castle Browne, the seat of Wogan Browne, Esq, by whom it was greatly enlarged and beautified in 1788, and from whose brother and heir, Gen. |
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