placenamesKilbarron
Cill Bharráin
The Tipperary parish’s nineteenth-century landscape combines farming, earlier castle sites and houses overlooking Lough Derg.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bharráin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbarron · English · main form
Place & story
Land, stone and older remains
Kilbarron lay on the Killaloe–Portumna road in Lower Ormond. Lewis’s 1837 account describes land chiefly under cultivation, with roughly 150 acres known as the Commons of Kearney. He noted limestone, red and white marble and earlier lead working. Alongside occupied country houses, he listed an old church and four ruined castles. The parish landscape thus held both working farmland and visible remains of earlier settlement. [2]
Gurthalougha and its service courtyard
Gurthalougha House at Ballinderry was built around 1850 and enlarged in the 1860s. A porch with a balcony fronts the two-storey house, while a service wing and stone outbuildings enclose a courtyard behind it. The heritage survey records slate roofs, timber sash windows and cobbles, with dressed stone and brick around a carriage entrance. This group preserves the working accommodation associated with a lakeside country house as well as its principal rooms. [3]
A smaller house at Luska
Luska House at Carrick dates from about 1875. Its single-storey body contains attic accommodation, with projecting bay windows and a central gabled porch decorated by carved timber bargeboards. The survey suggests that it was designed as a hunting lodge, rather than identifying that purpose with certainty. Its lakeside position and compact form offer a different expression of nineteenth-century country-house building from Gurthalougha’s larger courtyard complex. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.99001, -8.22853
- Mapped area
- 42.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2182 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbarron. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbarron, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Gurthalougha House, registration 22400609 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Luska House, registration 22400913 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.