placenamesTullabracky
Tulach Bhraice
Lewis recorded the relocation and shared funding of the parish church in 1819.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulach Bhraice · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullabracky · English · main form
Place & story
Between Rockbarton and the glebe-house
Tullabracky’s church was built in 1819 about a quarter of a mile from its predecessor, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The new site lay roughly midway between Rockbarton and the glebe-house. Lewis described a square tower with pierced battlements and pinnacles, and put the building cost at £2,500. Two grants from the Board of First Fruits provided £1,200, while Lord Guillamore donated the remaining £1,300. Some portions of the old church still survived when Lewis wrote; his account therefore distinguishes an older ruin from the newly built place of worship. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Coshma
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Coordinates
- 52.49893, -8.57071
- Mapped area
- 11.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1597 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullabracky. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullybracky: 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.