Tybroughney
Tibberaghny
Tiobra Fhachna | |
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Civil parish, townland | |
Coordinates: 52°20′42″N 7°21′46″W / 52.344866°N 7.3626745°W | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Leinster |
County | Kilkenny |
Municipal district | Piltown[1] |
Electoral division | Whitechurch[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 4.644 km2 (1.793 sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+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.
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
References
- ^ "S.I. No. 53/2014 - County of Kilkenny Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ a b General topographical index of Ireland, 1901. Command papers. Vol. Cd.2071. Dublin: HMSO. 1904. p. 869.
- ^ "Map with Tibberaghny highlighted". Google Maps. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Tiobra Fhachna/Tibberaghny (parish)". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ "Tiobra Fhachna/Tibberaghny (townland)". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b c d e Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Tipperaghney". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
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- ^ Bunson, Matthew; Bunson, Margaret; Bunson, Stephen (2003). "Modomnoc". Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. p. 592. ISBN 9781931709750.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ "HISTPOP.ORG - Browse > Census > 1911 > Ireland > Area, houses, and population, Leinster, Ireland, 1911 Page 15". Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ "Written Answers. - River Suir Bridge". Dáil Éireann debates. 29 March 1977. Retrieved 30 June 2015.