Knockroe Explained

Knockroe is a townland containing a little over 363 acres in Moycarky civil parish[1] and in the ecclesiastical parish of Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris, in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Its population at the time of the 1891 census was 65; in 1901 it was 54; and, in 1911, it was 44, of whom 28 were male and 16 female.

This townland is probably the Knockroe mentioned in references to a monster meeting held by Daniel O'Connell in September 1845, on which occasion he stayed in Turtulla House.[2]

References

  1. Web site: Civil Parishes. irelandgenweb.com. 7 December 2016.
  2. Patrick Ryan, Archbishop Patrick John Ryan His Life and Times: Ireland - St. Louis - Philadelphia 1831-1911, (2010), page 57.