School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)

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   Butlers (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) a new cause of strife became apparent. These Butlers endeavoured to push their possessions farther north into Tipperary; they encountered the local chieftains O'Carroll and O'Kennedy at Carrigahorig in a battle, where the local men won a signal victory leaving about one hundred of their opponents slain on the field.

   
   Cappanasmeare:-

   Capach-na-Sméur - is given as the field of the blackberries.

   
   Gortalougha, is given as the field of the ducks, but it is pronounced and written as if it meant "the field of the lake". It fringes Lough Derg.

   
   Macloon or Mucloon Madraighe (Moddree)
   Fr Gleeson gives in his history of "Eile Uí Chearbhaill" the interpretation Maghcluain (plain of the field or meadow): Sometimes we hear given "pig-meadow".

   
   Ballinderry

   Baile an Doire - townsland of the oakk trees.

   
   Shanbally - Sean-Bhaile - old townsland

   Shanavalla - no certainty of its meaning; it may be another form of Shanbally.

   
   Drominagh:-

   Druiim-Aidhneach - given by Fr. Gleeson - a hilly place).

   
   Gortmore - big field

   
   Crossanagh:-

   this is a small townsland situated beside a small river, where the land is low-lying. Its local meaning is not given, but its position, as also its phonetic form suggests the meaning.

   
   Cappanasmeare (Cappa na Sméur) is in

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Location

   Terryglass, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Brigid Parkinson

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Slevoir, Co. Tipperary