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MULLINAHONE

Mullinahone (Irish: Muileann na hUamhan, meaning "mill on the river") is a village in the barony of Slievardagh, South Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.

The name of Mullinahone appears first as a settlement in the records of the “Hearth Money Rolls” in the years 1665 to 1667 then spelled as Moninehoan. The “Hearth Money Rolls” were a rent or tax on houses in the post-Cromwellian period. It was entered as a village or settled area of nine 'cabbins' with hearths, that is, permanent structures, which were not very common then it appears after the wars of the time.

Just across the river (a tributary of the River Anner) was the main village of Killaghy, in what is now Fethard and Killaghy streets. Both were extensions of the worker/artisan settlements of Killaghy Castle and lands whose estate walls adjoin the modern town today. Killaghy has existed since the first lord of Killaghy or Compsey, named St Aubyn or Tobin, built his castle there in the 13th century.

There is one earlier mention of Mullinahone as a place name. This is dated 1551 in the Calendar of Justiciary Rolls (State papers then), regarding Inquisitions or trials held there. This was possibly at the old 13th century Norman keep in present day Carrick St in Mullinahone townland. The Lord of Compsey was a James Tobin who was then (1551) Justiciar of County Tipperary. The Tobins were a Norman family.

KILVEMNON

KILVEMNON, or KILMANANIFF, is a parish, in the barony of SLIEVARDAGH, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER.

It is 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Callan, on the road to Fethard. It comprises about 8100 statute acres, exclusively of about 1600 of bog; and includes within its limits part of the lofty mountain of Slieve-na-Man. About four-fifths of the land are arable, the remainder pasture; it is moderately productive, but in many parts is low and wet; the surface is ornamented with some plantations and hedgerows.

The river Anner has a subterraneous course for about a quarter of a mile, and works the Compsey Mill.

The principal seats are Killaghy Castle, the residence of J. Despard, Esq., which was the residence of Baron Tobin, and was taken by Cromwell, who gave it to a Col. Green, from whom it has descended to its present proprietor; Gurteen, of the Rev. W. O'Brien; the glebe-house (a plot of land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office) of the Rev. E. Labarte; and Ballylanigan, the property of the Cramer family. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, and in the gift of the Archbishop: the tithes amounted to £675. 6. 6 1/2. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 6 acres. The church is a plain structure.

The Roman Catholic parish is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, and is called Mullinahone, where there is a chapel. There are five private schools, in which children are educated.

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