Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Holycross

Holycross.-- par. and hamlet, mid. co. Tipperary, on river Suir, 4 miles SW. of Thurles, 8137 ac., pop. 1216; P.O.; has fine ruins of a Cistercian abbey (1182).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tipperary IrlC
Place: Holycross

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