GENUKI: Knigh, Tipperary

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KNIGH, a parish, in the barony of LOWER-ORMOND, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 2¾ miles (N.) from Nenagh, near the river Shannon, containing 1447 inhabitants. Riverview is the seat of J.

Tuthill, Esq., and Ballyhenny, of J. Maher, Esq. It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, forming part of the union of Nenagh: the tithes amount to £286.3.1. There are some remains of the church covered with ivy, and of the castle of Knigh, near which is a fine limestone quarry.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of Knigh contained the townlands of:

Ashleypark, Ballyanny Lower, Ballyanny Upper, Ballyannymore, Ballyhogan, Drumminascart, Garraunanearla, Grange Lower, Grange Upper, Killard, Loughourna, Rockview, Sedgemoor, Wellington,

Land & Property

Tithe Applotment Books for county Tipperary and its parishes are available online on the National Archives of Ireland website.

The entry for Knigh from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64

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