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Tibberaghny
Tiobra Fhachna
Civil parish, townland
Tibberaghny is located in Ireland
Tibberaghny
Tibberaghny
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°20′42″N 7°21′46″W / 52.344866°N 7.3626745°W / 52.344866; -7.3626745
Country Ireland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyKilkenny
Municipal districtPiltown[1]
Electoral divisionWhitechurch[2]
Area
[n 1]
 • Total4.644 km2 (1.793 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Ref[3]

Tybroughney, statutory spelling Tibberaghny (Irish: Tiobra Fhachna[4]), is a civil parish in the barony of Iverk, County Kilkenny in Ireland. The parish comprises a single townland, also called Tibberaghny.[5] It lies on the north bank of the River Suir facing County Waterford, while the Lingaun river separates it from County Tipperary to the west.[4]

Name

The name Tiobra Fhachna means "well of Saint Fachtna", who was at Lismore Abbey in the seventh century.[6] Various anglicised spellings include Tibberaghny,[4] Tiberaghny,[7] Tipperaghny,[8] Tybroughney,[6] Tyburoughny,[8] Tibroughny,[7] Tybrachny.[4][7]

History

Saint Fachtna's well, the holy well from which the townland is named, lies near the ruined former parish church.[9] Saint Modomnoc reputedly lived as a hermit in the area in the sixth century, and a pattern was celebrated there on 13 February, his feast day.[10][11] The church was built before the Norman invasion of Ireland, and the parish formerly belonged to the Diocese of Lismore rather than the Diocese of Ossory.[12] A pillar in the churchyard is carved in the style of a Celtic high cross, of which it may be a remnant.[9][13] In the Church of Ireland the parish was united to Whitechurch parish by 1821,[14] and in 1833 both were among five civil parishes in the benefice of Fiddown.[8][15] In the Irish Catholic church it is part of Templeorum parish.[8]

The site is at the limit of access upstream on the Suir for medieval sea-going vessels.[6] A Viking settlement here was destroyed in 980.[6] Prince John of England built a castle here in 1185, shortly after the Norman invasion, to guard the northern border of Waterford.[6] John's castle may have been built on the site of the extant Tybroughney Castle built in the 15th century,[6] or a motte-and-bailey on a now-empty height near by.[8][16] The parish was in County Tipperary as late as 1536, but had been transferred to County Kilkenny by 1649.[17]

Population

Censuses recorded population by townland until 1911.

Population of civil parish and townland of Tibberaghny at decennial censuses[18][19]
Year 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911
Population 278 247 210 190 147 128 104 71

Transport

The section of the N24 road between Carrick-on-Suir and Piltown runs through the north of the townland. Further south is the Limerick–Rosslare railway line, between Carrick-on-Suir station and Waterford station. (The nearer station at Fiddown closed in 1964.[9][20])

Footnotes

  1. ^ 1,147.6125 acres (464.4223 ha)[2]

References

  1. ^ "S.I. No. 53/2014 - County of Kilkenny Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b General topographical index of Ireland, 1901. Command papers. Vol. Cd.2071. Dublin: HMSO. 1904. p. 869.
  3. ^ "Map with Tibberaghny highlighted". Google Maps. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "Tiobra Fhachna/Tibberaghny (parish)". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Tiobra Fhachna/Tibberaghny (townland)". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Tybroughney Castle - Bastion of Romans and saints and now restored by the Dowleys". Kilkenny People. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  7. ^ a b c Abstract of Answers and Returns pursuant to Act for taking Account of Population of Ireland. Command papers. Vol. 22, xxiv, 393. HMSO. 1824. pp. 71, note (y).
  8. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Tipperaghney". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,. Retrieved 29 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  9. ^ a b c Crawford, Henry S. (30 September 1908). "Description of a Carved Stone at Tybroughney, Co. Kilkenny". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Fifth Series, Vol. 38 (3): 270–277. JSTOR 25513927.
  10. ^ Bunson, Matthew; Bunson, Margaret; Bunson, Stephen (2003). "Modomnoc". Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. p. 592. ISBN 9781931709750. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "St Aidan, Bishop and Patron of Ferns". The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. 7 (73). Browne and Nolan: 394. 1871.
  12. ^ Power, P. (30 June 1938). "Some Old Churches of Decies". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Seventh Series, Vol. 8 (1): 56, fn.1. JSTOR 25510095.
  13. ^ Kelly, Dorothy (1992). "The High Crosses of Ireland: A Review Article". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 122: 69. JSTOR 25509022. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ "County Kilkenny: Barony of Iverk". Abstract of Answers and Returns pursuant to Act for taking Account of Population of Ireland. Sessional papers. Vol. 22 xxiv 577. 1824. pp. 44–45, note (y). {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Return of Number of Churches in each Benefice or Union in Ireland". Sessional papers No.400. EPPI. 18 June 1833. pp. 14 No.34. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  16. ^ Orpen, Goddard H. (31 December 1909). "Motes and Norman Castles in Ossory". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 39 [Fifth Series, Vol. 19] (4): 324. JSTOR 25514022.
  17. ^ Empey, C. A. (1971). "The Cantreds of the Medieval County of Kilkenny". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 101 (2). Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland: 131. JSTOR 25549764. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "HISTPOP.ORG - Browse > Census > 1881 > Ireland > Area, population and number of houses, Vol. I, Ireland, 1881 Page 342". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  19. ^ "HISTPOP.ORG - Browse > Census > 1911 > Ireland > Area, houses, and population, Leinster, Ireland, 1911 Page 15". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  20. ^ "Written Answers. - River Suir Bridge". Dáil Éireann debates. 29 March 1977. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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