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Tullycorbet is a
Tullycorbet is a civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in the centre of County Monaghan, Ireland
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north of the town of Ballybay, in the north of the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District and immediately south of the boundary to the Monaghan Municipal District. At the 2005 census it had 727 Catholic households with a Catholic population of 2,153. There are approximately 85 families of other faith traditions. The Catholic parish of Tullycorbet is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher ( ga, Deoise Chlochair) was formed in 1111 at the Synod of Rathbreasail as the see for the Kingdom of Uí Chremthainn. It is part of the Province of Armagh.
The original cathedral was in the village of Cl ...
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Tradition links the parish to St. Patrick. Tullycorbet, which means "The Hill of the Chariot" (''Tulach-Carbait'') was named after the steep hill at Terrygeely (Tír Mhic Caollaí), where St. Patrick
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’s chariot allegedly broke down on his journey through the kingdom of Oriel. It was probably on the same hill that the first church was built, on the site of a ringed fort. From earliest times St. Patrick was recognised as the patron saint. A Roman letter of 1415 mentions the church of St. Patrick at Tullycorbet.
It is marked on a survey map of 1591 as Tempell Tolagh-Corbet.
The Reverend Morgan Jellett was the Church of Ireland rector here in the 1820s. He had numerous distinguished descendants including John Hewitt Jellett, Provost of Trinity College Dublin
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, Eva Jellett
Eva Josephine Jellett (8 April 1880 – 2 July 1955), doctor, was the first woman to graduate in medicine from Dublin University.
Early life and study
Jellett was born in Wellington Row to John Hewitt Jellett who was a clergyman, mathematician ...
, the pioneering woman doctor, and the
celebrated artist Mainie Jellett
Mary Harriet "Mainie" Jellett (29 April 1897, Dublin – 16 February 1944, Dublin) was an Irish painter whose ''Decoration'' (1923) was among the first abstract paintings shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painter ...
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Civil parishes of County Monaghan {{Monaghan-geo-stub