placenamesNenagh
An tAonach
Nenagh’s rural parish history includes differing church jurisdictions and a house whose occupants combined milling with estate ownership.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An tAonach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Nenagh · English · main form
Place & story
Knigh and Lisbunny in different unions
Nenagh's Church of Ireland rectory and vicarage were united with Knigh by an act of council dated 16 February 1798. Lewis's 1837 survey describes a different Catholic district, joining Nenagh and Lisbunny. Each ecclesiastical district therefore extended beyond the civil boundary, with different neighbouring communities attached to each denomination. [2]
House and flour mill at Tyone
Tyone lies within Nenagh civil parish. The University of Galway's Landed Estates record identifies Donagh O'Brien there with bolting mills in the 1770s. In the mid-nineteenth century, Malachy Ryan held a house, flour mill and land from Stafford O'Brien; the buildings were valued at £75. Thomas John Ryan, Malachy's son, occupied Tyone in the 1870s. The property joined a country residence to industrial activity. [3]
Thomas John Ryan and the Riggs Miller inheritance
Thomas John Ryan owned 1,319 acres in County Tipperary in the 1870s. His inheritance of the Riggs Miller estate later brought a change of surname. The Landed Estates database cites a grant of arms dated 15 April 1889, authorising the Riggs Miller name and arms in accordance with Sir John Edward Riggs Miller's will. That archival reference documents a family transition beyond Tyone's earlier milling history. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.85897, -8.20657
- Mapped area
- 15.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2210 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Nenagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Tyone, property 4542 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Ryan of Tyone, estate 3524 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.