•  Doora, County Clare

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In 1837, Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland described Doora like this:

DOWRY, or DOWRIE, a parish, in the barony of BUNRATTY, county of CLARE, and province of MUNSTER, 1 ¼ mile (E.) from Ennis, on the road from Clare to Spancel hill; containing 2099 inhabitants. It comprises 3684 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and consists chiefly of arable and pasture land of second and third rate quality : there are about 800 acres of bog, and a considerable portion of limestone crag. ...

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Sea-weed and sand brought up the river Fergus are much used for manure. The seats are Moriesk, the finely wooded demesne of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci; Well-Park, that of the Rt. Rev. Dr. McMahon, R. C. Bishop of Killaloe; Castle Fergus, of W. Smith Blood, Esq., and Tuoreem, of W. O'Connell, Esq. The parish is in the diocese of Killaloe; the rectory is part of the union of Ogashin, and the vicarage of that of Quinn : the tithes amount to £217. 11. 6 ¼., of which, £102. 9. 3. is payable to the rector, £92. 6. 1 ¾. to the vicar, and £23. 1. 6 ½. to the prebendary of Tullagh. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilraghtis : the chapel is a small thatched building, but a new and very handsome structure is about to be erected on another site. A school supported by Mr. Howley having been lately discontinued, it is in contemplation to establish another on a more general plan.

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