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Loughmoe East
Loughmoe East is a civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland.(Gaelic: ''Na Cealla Beaga''). Also called CALLABEG, or KILNASEAR, the parish, in the barony of ELIOGARTY, County TIPPERARY, is in the province of MUNSTER, about 2 miles south-east of Templemore. This parish is situated on the river Suir, which separates it from Loughmoe-West, and on the road from Templemore to Thurles, and comprises 3417 statute acres. History On the townland of Killahara is a very fine old castle, which formerly belonged to the Purcells, it was in 1837, the property of a Mr. Trant. It had a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, and was part of the union of Templetuohy and corps of the prebend of Kilbragh in the cathedral of Cashel: the tithes amounted to £249. 17s. 9d. There was a pay school, in which are about So boys and 20 girls. Originally containing 1600 inhabitants in 1837, it was devastated by the Great Famine.Samuel West, ''Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'' (1837) Townl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curraghmore
Curraghmore near Portlaw Portlaw ( or ''Port Lách'') is a town in County Waterford, Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. It is situated approximately 19 km west-north-west of Waterford City, where the Clodiagh m ..., County Waterford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, is a historic house and estate and the seat of the Marquess of Waterford. The estate was part of the grant of land made to Sir Roger le Puher (la Poer) by Henry II of England, Henry II in 1177 after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. Curraghmore House is the Beresford family estate that once covered 100,000 acres (400 km2). Curraghmore near Waterford in South East Ireland, had stables for 100 horses and employed 600 people. The family were involved in hunting, to the extent that members of the family have been killed in a riding accident. Now surrounded by c.3,500 acres of formal gardens, woodland and grazing fields making this the largest private demesn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilbrickane
Kilbrickane (Irish: ''Cill Bhreacáin'', meaning "the church of Bracken") is a relatively small townland, measuring just over , in the civil parish of Loughmoe East, County Tipperary. The townland is from the village of Loughmore, from Templemore and from Thurles. The townland house, ''Kilbrickane House'' - completed in 1854 by the Yorkshire-based absentee landlord Rev. Christopher Alderson - is still in good condition. It appears on the map of the townland that was made in the second Ordnance Survey in the last decade of the 19th century. The map of the townland made in the first Ordnance Survey, taken in the first half of the 19th century, shows an earlier, smaller, house, located midway down the avenue which leads from the later house to the road that runs along the eastern boundary of the townland. This earlier map also shows two sets of buildings in the western side of the townland that had disappeared by the time of the second survey in the last decade of the 19th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
