Moycarkey (),
sometimes written Moycarky, is a village at the northern end of
Moycarky townland in the civil parish of
Moycarky in
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after t ...
, Ireland.
It contains the extensive ruins of
Moycarkey Castle. To the west of the castle, there is a Catholic church, St. Peter's, which was built some time before the first Ordnance Survey in the early 19th century and heavily modernised in the mid-20th century. Beside the church is the parochial house for the Catholic parish of
Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris. To the north of the current church, just across the road, there is an old graveyard and the ruins of an old church; to the north of these ruins, the first Ordnance Survey map showed the remains of what it termed an 'R.C. Chapel (in ruins)'.
[{{Cite web , url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,614309,652788,7,7 , title=Ordnance Survey map , access-date=2012-09-26 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,614309,652788,7,7 , archive-date=2012-08-29 , url-status=dead ] The modern graveyard, in which the first burial was made around 1958, is located a hundred metres or so to the south of the current church.
See also
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List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Tipperary