Civil Parish Templetuohy County Tipperary

Templetouhy (

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''Teampall Tuaithe''), often written Templetuohy, is a

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that lies mainly in the barony of

Ikerrin Ikerrin (Irish: ''Uí Chairín'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Roscrea. The barony lies between Eliogarty to the south (whose chief town is Th ...

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 ...

although a single

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lies in the barony of

Eliogarty Eliogarty ( Irish: ''Éile Uí Fhógarta'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Thurles. The barony lies between Ikerrin to the north (whose chief ...

. It is part of the

Thurles Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles. The cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Arc ...

poor law union. Writing in 1837,

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said that the parish of Templetuohy (as he had it, Templetouhy) had 2,653 inhabitants.Samuel Lewis
A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
(1837), page 616

Ecclesiastical parishes

Like all civil parishes in Ireland, this civil parish is derived from, and co-extensive with, a pre-existing parish of the

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. The

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was a rectory, joined with that of Callabeg, in the Diocese of Cashel which was in the gift of the Archbishop. Following the merger of various dioceses in the region, it is now part of the parish of "

Templemore Templemore () is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The 2011 Cens ...

and Kilfithmone" in the United Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory. In the

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, it is united to Moyne to form the

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of "Templetuohy and Moyne" in the

Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly The Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly ( ga, Ard-Deoise Chaisil agus Imligh) is an ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church ( particularly the Roman Catholic or Latin Church) located in mid-western Ireland and the metropolis o ...

Townlands

The parish is divided into 13 townlands.Parishes North Tipperary
civil parishes. The largest population centre is the village of

Templetuohy Templetuohy ( Irish ''Teampall Tuaithe''), often written Templetouhy, is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is situated in the townland of Longorchard in the civil parish of Templetouhy. The local GAA club is Moyne–Templetuohy GAA wh ...

in the townland of Longorchard. The southernmost townland of Derryville lies in the barony of Eliogarty.

References

{{coord missing, County Tipperary Civil parishes of Ikerrin Templetouhy