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From: "Tony Riordan" <>
Subject: Re: [WAT] R.C. churches
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 17:18:39 -0700
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<> wrote,


> I am looking for the names of the R.C. churches in the parishes of
Kill and
> Stradbally. I understand that there are four churches in the parish
of Kill
> located in Newtown, Kilmacthomas, Kill and Saleen and 2 churches in
the
> parish of Stradbally located in Stradbally and Ballylaneen.
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The first parish you described is not now called Kill. It is now called
the
Parish of NEWTOWN, and includes the church at Kill. It appears that you
are interested in what they are "now," since you use the present tense.
The parish names and organizaion were quite different in the mid 19th
century.

See the website;

http://www.waterfordlismore.com/index.php?filename=parishes.html
Parishes of the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore
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Parish of NEWTOWN

Churches -
All Saints in Newtown
Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Kill
St. Mary in Saleen
Our Lady of Mercy in Kilmacthomas

Priests

P.P. Brendan Crowley
Phone Address
051 294261 Parochial House
Newtown
Kilmacthomas
Co. Waterford

C.C. Michael Kennedy
Phone Address
051 292212 The Presbytery
Kill
Co. Waterford
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Parish of STRADBALLY

Churches -
Stradbally - Exaltation of the Holy Cross and erected in 1834.
Ballylaneen - St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin, erected in
1824.
Faha - Chapel built by James Barron of Sarahville, Faha, for his
family and domestics in the year 1804.

Priests
P.P. Michael Enright
Phone Address
051 293133 Parochial House
Stradbally
Co. Waterford

P.E. Gregory Canon Power
Phone Address
051 294141 Ballylaneen
Kilmacthomas
Co. Waterford
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Best wishes,
Tony Riordan

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