Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLONPET

CLONPET, a parish, in the barony of CLANWILLIAM, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, situated in the heart of a mountainous district, 2 ¼ miles (S.) from Tipperary; containing 907 inhabitants. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Emly, and is part of the union of Lattin; the rectory is impropriate in William Moore, Esq.: the tithes amount to £92, of which £58 is payable to the impropriator, and £34 to the vicar. In the R. C. divisions it also forms part of the union or district of Lattin. There is a small pay school of seven boys.


(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.)

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Clonpet IrlPar       Clanwilliam IrlBarony       Tipperary IrlC
Place: Clonpet

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