placenamesMonsea
Maigh Saotha
Lewis separates the house’s grant and loan from assistance for the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Saotha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monsea · English · main form
Place & story
The house built in 1813
Monsea’s glebe-house was erected in 1813 with a £400 gift and a £308 loan from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. The assistance combined money granted outright with repayable funding. In his 1837 account, Lewis named the Rev. William Cromie as the house’s resident. [2]
A church and a later repair loan
The parish church, a plain building with a tower, had been built in 1799 with a £500 gift from the same board. Repairs in 1818 received a £50 loan. Those were separate building campaigns and different forms of financial support, rather than a single grant covering the church and glebe-house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Coordinates
- 52.88658, -8.25434
- Mapped area
- 23.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2207 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monsea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Monsea or Mountsea — 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.