placenamesNewchapel
An Eaglais Nua
An 1837 account records a cultivated parish northwest of Clonmel, where stone-working and church investment shaped the local landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Eaglais Nua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Newchapel · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for building and farming
Samuel Lewis described Newchapel’s limestone as extensively quarried for both building and agricultural use. He contrasted this active trade with coal found in the parish but left unworked. The account portrays fertile land under intensive cultivation, with no bog or waste ground. It provides evidence for a working rural landscape in 1837, without establishing a later coal-mining industry. Lewis also recorded a private school teaching about seventy children. [2]
Two phases of parish building
The glebe house was built in 1790 with a £100 contribution from the Board of First Fruits. The church was rebuilt in 1821 using an £800 loan from the same body. Lewis records a glebe of seventeen and a quarter acres supporting the clerical residence. The separate dates and funding arrangements distinguish the house’s construction from the later church rebuilding, rather than treating them as one building project. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.40107, -7.76559
- Mapped area
- 21.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2317 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newchapel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Newchapel, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.