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Thurles is an
A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
(1837), page 623 which covered the same area as the civil parish of the same name. Today, however, the Roman Catholic parish includes the townlands in the civil parishes of
Thurles is an ecclesiastical parish
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in the Thurles deanery
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of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
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in Ireland
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There are two churches in the parish, both in the town of 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 (Roman Catholic parish), Thurles. The cathedral ch ...
, County Tipperary
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*the Cathedral of the Assumption on the eastern side of the River Suir which passes through the centre of the town;
*''Sts. Brigid & Joseph'' which is located on Bóthar na Naomh at the western edge of the town.
Extent of the parish
Writing in 1837, Lewis said that "the R. C. parish f Thurlesis co-extensive with that of the Established Church"Samuel LewisA Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
(1837), page 623 which covered the same area as the civil parish of the same name. Today, however, the Roman Catholic parish includes the townlands in the civil parishes of
Athnid
Athnid (Irish ''Áth Nid'', "ford of the nest"), some times written Adnith, or Athnett, is a civil parish in the barony of Eliogarty in County Tipperary. It is divided into two townlands: Athnid More (containing a little more than 638 acres) ...
(Adnith), Shyane and Rahelty.
This situation was prefigured in Lewis's time because he wrote that "the living f Thurles Church of Ireland parishis ... partly united, by act of council, in 1682, to the vicarages of Rahelty, Shyane, and Adnith".
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