Moyaliff | |
Settlement Type: | Townland |
Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Munster |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | County Tipperary |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset1: | +0 |
Timezone1 Dst: | IST (WEST) |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -1 |
Coordinates: | 52.5743°N -7.8959°W |
Elevation M: | 100 |
Blank Name: | Irish Grid Reference |
Moyaliff (historically Moaliffe "Mealiff", from)[1] is a civil parish and townland in County Tipperary, Ireland. The civil parish is in the barony of Kilnamanagh Upper. It has 31 townlands in total. 27 of these townslands are in the Roman Catholic Parish of Upperchurch-Drombane, three in the Roman Catholic parish of Holycross-Ballycahill and one townland Moyaliff itself shared between the two.
The name is composed of two Irish words: Irish: Maigh, meaning 'plain' and "Ailbhe", Irish for Alvy, giving the full name of Irish: Maigh Ailbhe or Alvy's Plain.[1]
The civil parish has 31 townlands:[2]
According to the Down Survey of Ireland part of the historical parish of Moyaliff then known as Moaliffe was in the now defunct barony of Killnelongurty.[3]