Knockroe is a
townland
A townland (; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion, and mo ...
containing a little over 363 acres in
Moycarky civil parish
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and in the ecclesiastical parish of
Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris, in
County Tipperary
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,
Ireland
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.
Its
population
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at the time of the 1891
census
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was 65; in 1901 it was 54; and, in 1911, it was 44, of whom 28 were male and 16 female.
This townland is probably the Knockroe mentioned in references to a monster meeting held by Daniel O'Connell in September 1845, on which occasion he stayed in
Turtulla House.
[Patrick Ryan]
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan His Life and Times: Ireland - St. Louis - Philadelphia 1831-1911
{{ISBN, 1438998228 (2010), page 57.
References
Townlands of County Tipperary
Eliogarty