O'Callaghans Mills
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O'Callaghan's Mills Muillte Uí Cheallacháin
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 O'Callaghan's Mills
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| Coordinates: 52°50′N 8°40′W / 52.84°N 8.67°WCoordinates: 52°50′N 8°40′W / 52.84°N 8.67°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Clare |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population (2002) | |
| • Urban | 575 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R535769 |
O'Callaghan's Mills (Irish: Muillte Uí Cheallacháin) is a village in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name. It takes its name from the O'Callaghan family who were large landowners in the area and a corn and grist mill built by John Coonan on the lands of Cornelius O'Callaghan in 1772. The community sustains a regular senior Gaelic Athletic Association hurling panel team with county championship achievements at under-age, junior and senior levels.
The parish of O'Callaghan's Mills, Kilkishen and Oatfield stretches from near Bodyke to near Sixmilebridge. It corresponds roughly to the old parishes of Killuran and Clonlea.
The parish churches are St Patrick's in O'Callaghan's Mills and St Senan's in Kilkishen.
The village of O'Callaghan's Mills is in East County Clare, halfway between the County Town of Ennis and River Shannon's Lough Derg. It is 26 km north of Limerick City.
The village of O'Callaghan's Mills takes its name from the O'Callaghan family who were large landowners in the area. They were displaced from the Mallow area of Cork in confiscations during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the 1650s when they lost 24,000 acres (97 km2), 20,000 of which was deemed to have been the property of the ruling chief, Donncha O'Callaghan. He and his extended family were transplanted to east Clare, where they obtained land in the barony of Tulla Lower. The village of O'Callaghan's Mills records their continued presence.
There is a tradition that two priests of the Congregation of the Mission, or Vincentians, escaped from the 1651 siege of Limerick by Oliver Cromwell's troops, and for several years ministered to the people of the parish near the present church of St Vincent de Paul in Oatfield.
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