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Recorded forms
Cnoc Uí Choileáin· Irish · main form · validated name
Mountcollins· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Luke Collins and the Mount
The Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project connects the name Mountcollins with Luke Collins, a priest who served this area and Abbeyfeale from the 1730s until his death in 1775. It records that he celebrated Mass in a building on the hill known as the Mount, the site of the later parish church. The account identifies a particular local ministry behind the English place name, rather than deriving it only from the surname's wider history.[2]
Relief roads and a changing parish
The parish of Tournafulla–Mountcollins was formed in 1838 from part of Killeedy. During the Famine, new roads were laid around Mountcollins as relief works. Land reclamation also changed the district in the middle of the nineteenth century. The diocesan account describes a settlement formerly concentrated along a road, within a boggy landscape bounded by hills. These changes in routes and land use help explain the development of the village and its surrounding farms.[2]
Our Lady of the Assumption
The present church was built in 1859 and extended in 1954–1955. Its eight-bay nave, entrance porch, side sacristy and four-stage bell tower reflect a building enlarged over time. Roughcast walls, buttresses and a slate roof give it a comparatively plain exterior, while the open upper belfry has trefoil-headed openings. The church's surviving form should therefore be understood as the product of both nineteenth-century construction and substantial twentieth-century work.[3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Mountcollins — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
221people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
271people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
258people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Mountcollins, Limerick — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Mountcollins, Limerick
Published census settlement populations
201people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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