placenamesFethard
Fiodh Ard
The Catholic parish church and archaeological monitoring at the former convent preserve evidence from later phases of town life.
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
- Fiodh Ard · Irish · main form · validated name
- Fethard · English · main form
Place & story
A clock and bell above Main Street
Holy Trinity Catholic Church was built in 1818. Its entrance front combines a shallow classical pediment with a carved limestone bellcote, where a clock sits below the bell and an octagonal stone spire rises above. Scrolls and urns give this upper structure an elaborate outline. Inside the cross-shaped building, timber galleries occupy the entrance end and transepts. The architectural survey also records stained glass, decorative plasterwork and marble altar furniture. [2]
School debris beneath the lawn
Mary Henry’s 2023 monitoring at the former Presentation Convent examined trenches for electricity works outside the medieval town wall. Beneath a lawn, she identified a demolition layer from the former convent school, which had stood at right angles to the main building. Elsewhere a short cobbled surface had been damaged by earlier services. The report found no surviving archaeological features of earlier periods in these limited works; the school debris documents a later building removed from the site. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.46292, -7.68913
- Mapped area
- 6.17 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2277 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Fethard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Holy Trinity Catholic Church, record22110009 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- 2023:696, Fethard Presentation Convent, Convent Lane, licence23E0179 · Mary Henry, Excavations.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.