placenamesJerpointchurch
Teampall Sheireapúin
Lewis described a wooded demesne linked across the river by a bridge.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Teampall Sheireapúin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Jerpointchurch · English · main form
Place & story
The river through the demesne
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Jerpointchurch describes Mount Juliet as the Earl of Carrick’s seat. Its demesne extended along both banks of the Nore, crossed by a bridge. Lewis estimated its extent at about nine hundred plantation acres, roughly a third of them woodland. He separately placed Norelands, the residence of W. Bayly, on the same river. The figures describe Mount Juliet’s historical demesne, rather than the area of Jerpointchurch parish or a present estate boundary. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Coordinates
- 52.49822, -7.18225
- Mapped area
- 24.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1306 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Jerpointchurch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Jerpoint (Church), A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.