WHITECHURCH

In 1868, the parish of Whitechurch contained the following places:

"WHITECHURCH, a parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West, county Tipperary, province of Munster, Ireland, 3 miles S.W. of Cahir. It is situated on the road to Clonmel, under the Galtee mountains. The surface is mountainous. The woollen manufacture, formerly carried on, has become extinct. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Lismore, forming part of the union of Tubrid. In the Roman Catholic arrangement it is the head of a union, called, from the village, Ballylooby. There are two private schools."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018