Moycarkey (Irish: Maigh Chairce),[1] sometimes written Moycarky, is a village at the northern end of Moycarky townland in the civil parish of Moycarky in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Moycarkey
Maigh Chairce | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Moycarkey Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°37′34″N 7°47′24″W / 52.6259958°N 7.7899714°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
It contains the extensive ruins of Moycarkey Castle. To the west of the castle, there is a Catholic church, St. Peter's, which was built some time before the first Ordnance Survey in the early 19th century and heavily modernised in the mid-20th century. Beside the church is the parochial house for the Catholic parish of Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris. To the north of the current church, just across the road, there is an old graveyard and the ruins of an old church; to the north of these ruins, the first Ordnance Survey map showed the remains of what it termed an 'R.C. Chapel (in ruins)'.[2] The modern graveyard, in which the first burial was made around 1958, is located a hundred metres or so to the south of the current church.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Maigh Chairce/Moycarky". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey map". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.