Kilnamanagh Upper ( Irish: ''Cill na Manach Uachtarach'') is a

barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary (tow ...

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. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Borrisoleigh. The barony lies between

Ormond Upper Ormond Upper ( Irish: ''Urumhain Uachtarach'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Toomevara. The barony lies between Ormond Lower to the north (wh ...

to the north (whose chief town is Toomevara), Kilnamanagh Lower to the south (whose chief town is Dundrum) and

Eliogarty Eliogarty (Irish language, Irish: ''Éile Uí Fhógarta'') is a Barony (Ireland), barony in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Thurles. The ...

to the east (whose chief town is

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 Arch ...

). It is currently administered by Tipperary County Council.

Legal context

Baronies were created after the

Norman invasion of Ireland The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland took place during the late 12th century, when Anglo-Normans gradually conquered and acquired large swathes of land in Ireland over which the monarchs of England then claimed sovereignty. The Anglo-Normans ...

as divisions of

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and were used for the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier

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túath which had submitted to the Crown.

Modern times

When

was split into

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and South Ridings in 1836, the barony of Kilnamanagh was split into two half-baronies. Kilnamanagh Upper was allocated to the north riding with Kilnamanagh Lower being allocated to the south riding.

Towns, villages and townlands of the barony

Borrisoleigh.

Civil parishes of the barony

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/ref> lists a historical-geographical sub-division of the barony known as the

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(not to be confused with an

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* Source given is "Ordnance survey".

References