placenamesTemplederry
Teampall Doire
The estate residence at Cloghonan combined a mid-eighteenth-century house with an attached tower house.
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 Doire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Templederry · English · main form
Place & story
An estate seat across generations
Castle Otway stands in Cloghonan townland within Templederry parish. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates Database describes a mid-eighteenth-century house with a tower house attached, altered during the nineteenth century. It was an Otway family seat through both centuries. The Honourable Mrs Otway Cave held it in fee in the mid-nineteenth century. William Otway Ruthven was recorded there in 1894, while representatives of Robert J. Otway occupied it in 1906. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.74602, -8.09301
- Mapped area
- 28.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2217 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Templederry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castle Otway, property 4411 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.