Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OUTRAGH, or OUGHTERAGH

OUTRAGH, or OUGHTERAGH, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 3 ½ miles (N. by E.) from Cahir, on the road from Cashel to Clonmel; containing 602 inhabitants. It comprises 1482 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Lismore, episcopally united to that of Mortlestown, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £92. 6. 1., and of the union to £142. 6. l.; there is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 12 acres. The Protestant parishioners attend the church at New Inn. About 50 children are educated in a school supported by Wray Palliser, Esq., and the rector.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Outeragh IrlPar       Middlethird IrlBarony       Tipperary IrlC
Place names: OUGHTERAGH     |     OUTRAGH     |     OUTRAGH OR OUGHTERAGH
Place: Outeragh

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