New Inn ()
[Placenames Database of Ireland]
(see archival records) is a village in
County Tipperary
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in
Ireland
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. It is also in the
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of
Middle Third, and part of the
parish
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of New Inn and Knockgraffon in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Cashel and Emly
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*Cashel, County Tipperary
**The Rock of Cashel, an ancient, hilltop fortress complex for which Cashel is named
**Archbishop ...
.
Location and access
It is located in the
Golden Vale
The Golden Vale ()
is the historic name given to an area of rolling pastureland in the province of Munster in southwestern Ireland. The area covers parts of three counties: Cork, Limerick and Tipperary. Considered the best land in Ireland ...
midway between the market and tourist towns of
Cahir
Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West.
Location and access
For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dubli ...
and
Cashel
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Places in Ireland
*Cashel, County Tipperary
**The Rock of Cashel, an ancient, hilltop fortress complex for which Cashel is named
** Archbishop ...
. Bypassed in October 2007 by the
M8, the main road through the village is a section of the
R639. Two other roads, the
R687 to
Clonmel
Clonmel () is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Dro ...
and the L3121 road to
Golden, begin at the centre of the village.
Amenities and facilities
New Inn has two pubs, two schools, one shop, a convent and church, a Community Centre, a tennis club, and a
GAA
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pitch, which is home to Rockwell Rovers GAA Club. To the south of the village is the Outrath Co-op, which serves the large agricultural hinterland of the village.
Rockwell College
Rockwell College (), founded in 1864, is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.
The school has a rugby tradition and has won the Munster Schools Senior Cup 26 times and the Munster ...
, a private secondary school run by the
Holy Ghost Fathers
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, is situated from the centre of the village.
History
The village lies within the
townland
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of Loughkent, and the village was formerly known by this name. It is derived . Older anglicisations include ''Lochken'' and ''Loghkean''. Another old name for the village was ''Graigkent'' (likely ).
[ The parish church, The Church of our Lady Queen, was built in 1832.
]
The Whiteboys
The area around present-day New Inn was a hotbed of agrarian unrest and Whiteboy activity in the late 1700s 1700s may refer to:
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.
The road through New Inn
It is not known when the present settlement of New Inn was founded. It is not listed on either Herman Moll
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Origin and early life
While Moll's exact place and date of birth are unknown, he was probably born in the mid-17th century in German ...
's 1714 map of Ireland, nor is it depicted in Taylor and Skinner's ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland'', published in 1778. While New Inn does not appear to have existed in the 18th century, the road now known as the R639 between Cashel and Cahir clearly did. At that time the R639 was not the main Dublin to Cork route (it did not exist north of Cashel until 1739, nor south of Cahir to Fermoy until after 1811). It is probable that the present settlement developed after the turnpike road-building drive of the 18th century was substantially complete by the early 19th century, when Charles Bianconi
Charles Bianconi (24 September 1786 – 22 September 1875) was an Italo-Irish entrepreneur. Sometimes described as the "man who put Ireland on wheels", he developed a network of horse-drawn coaches that became Ireland's "first regular public tran ...
ran regular coach services throughout the region from 1815, establishing several inns along popular routes in the process.
The Murder at Marlhill
On 22 November 1940
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Events
Below, events related to World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*Janu ...
, a local woman named Mary McCarthy (known as Moll Carthy) was murdered in a field at Marlhill. An unmarried mother of seven, McCarthy was shot in the face at close range. Her neighbour, a man named Harry Gleeson
Mary McCarthy, known as Moll Carthy (1902Bourke 1993, pp.6–7–20/21 November 1940), was a woman, mother, smallholder, possible sex worker, and murder victim from Marlhill, near New Inn, County Tipperary in Ireland. Henry "Harry" Gleeson (19 ...
, who had discovered the body, was arrested, charged and convicted of her murder, and hanged in Dublin. The Murder at Marlhill, as the event has become known, continues to spark controversy both in the local community and historical circles, with many maintaining Gleeson's innocence. A book and two RTÉ
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television programmes have documented the event.
In March 2015, the Irish Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald granted a pardon to Henry Gleeson and an apology for his hanging after a conviction that was "unsafe".
Sport
The local GAA club is Rockwell Rovers.
New Inn Tennis Club
New Inn's association with tennis goes back to the 1890s when Lena Rice
Helena Bertha Grace Rice (21 June 1866 – 21 June 1907) was an Irish tennis player who won the singles title at the 1890 Wimbledon Championships. She is to date the only female player from Ireland ever to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
Bi ...
of Marlhill House, New Inn came to the fore in the national tennis championships. In 1889, she was narrowly defeated in the final of the singles in Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin. She won the mixed doubles that same year, and the following year, 1890, she achieved what no other Irish woman has achieved by winning the Wimbledon singles championship.
On 16 June 1991, the Lena Rice Trophy was presented to the club by Fr. Meehan on his own behalf and on behalf of David Joe O’ Neill. Each year the club invites all local clubs to play for the honour of winning this trophy.
An all-weather surface was installed on both courts in February 2009. This was made possible by extensive fundraising by club members over several years and by grant aid from Tipperary County Council and National Lottery funding.
Knockgraffon
The parish of New Inn also includes Knockgraffon (), a rural locality which is home to a ruined medieval church and graveyard. Knockgraffon was once a village in its own right, but the settlement was abandoned sometime in the 18th century. Around 1610
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, the Irish historian Geoffrey Keating
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Biography
It was generally believed unt ...
was appointed Parish Priest of Knockgraffon. Interesting features include a fine Motte
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, a church and a castle. The motte
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was built by the English of Leinster beside the River Suir when they were on a raid against Donal Mor O'Brien, King of Thomond
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, in 1192. It was given by the King to William de Braose but later taken from him and granted to Philip of Worcester. Nearby is a ruined 13th-century nave-and-chancel church with an east window inserted in the 15th century. A few hundred yards further away is a 16th-century tower built by the Butlers
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.
Knockgraffon was the centre of the O'Sullivan O'Sullivan may refer to:
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clan's ancestral lands, until that family was displaced by the Normans in the early 13th century. In 1998, the Knockgraffon motte was purchased by an O'Sullivan (Gary Brian Sullivan of Statesboro, Georgia
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, US) from its Norman-Irish owner (Donal Keating of Cahir, Ireland). It is the first time that Knockgraffon has been back in O'Sullivan possession for nearly 800 years. Other townlands include: Ardneasa, Boytonrath, Chamberlainstown, Derryclooney, Garrandea, Garranlea, Lagganstown, Lough Kent, Masterstown, Marlhill, and Outrath.
See also
* List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
{{County Tipperary
Towns and villages in County Tipperary
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