Ballymurreen Explained

Official Name:Ballymurreen
Settlement Type:Civil parish
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:County Tipperary

Ballymurreen, also written Ballymoreen, is a civil parish[1] and an electoral division[2] in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is one of 21 civil parishes in the barony of Eliogarty.

As a Church of Ireland parish, it was in the diocese of Cashel. The ruins of a church are still to be seen in Ballymurreen townland, at the junction of a minor road from Holycross with the R639,[3] but there was no parish church in modern times, members of the established church attending services in the neighbouring parish of Borrisleigh, at Littleton which is located between the exclave of Rathcunikeen and the main part of Ballymoreen.

Electoral division

The code number assigned to the electoral division by the Central Statistics Office is 22062.[4]

At the time of both the 1911 census,[5] the division was smaller than the civil parish of the same name, containing just three townlands (Curraheen, Parkstown and Liskeveen) of the seven that belong to the civil parish; the four other townlands from Ballymurreen civil parish belonged to Littleton electoral division.

At the time of the 2011 census, the total population of Ballymurreen electoral division was 254, of which 150 were male and 104 female.[4] There were 103 dwellings, of which 10 were vacant.

Townlands of the civil parish

Ballymurreen contains seven townlands:

Together they amount to a total of 2870 statute acres; of these about 500 acres are bog and most of the remainder is used for dairying and tillage.[6]

Castle

The site of Ballymurreen Castle, no longer standing, is just across the road from the ruins of the church and graveyard in Ballymurreen townland.[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baile Amoraoin/Ballymurreen . Placenames Database of Ireland . logainm.ie . 29 April 2023 .
  2. Web site: Baile Amoraoin/Ballymurreen . Placenames Database of Ireland . logainm.ie . 29 April 2023 .
  3. Web site: Site of church on extract from Ordnance Survey map . 2012-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,616862,653525,7,7 . 2012-08-29 . dead .
  4. Web site: Electoral Division Ballymurreen (CSO Area Code ED 22062) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053605/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2011/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ED&Geog_Code=22062&CTY=22 . 4 March 2016 .
  5. Web site: Census returns for Ireland, 1911. Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland .
  6. http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=Curraheen&streets=no&listText=&filterParent=100029&filterType=BF Placenames Database of Ireland
  7. Web site: Site of Ballymurreen Castle on extract from Ordnance Survey map . 2012-10-06 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,617076,653500,7,7 . 2012-08-29 . dead .