placenamesOughterleague
Uachtar Liag
Lewis’s 1837 account places Killenure Castle’s estate within this Tipperary parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Uachtar Liag · Irish · main form · validated name
- Oughterleague · English · main form
Place & story
A landed estate and two schools
Samuel Lewis included the demesne of Killenure Castle within Oughterleague and named William Cooper as its resident in 1837. Alongside this estate, his account records two private schools educating about 190 children between them. Oughterleague also headed a Catholic district that included neighbouring Ballintemple; each parish had its own chapel. These were the arrangements Lewis described, rather than a statement of present-day parish boundaries or school provision. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.54650, -7.99642
- Mapped area
- 10.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2319 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oughterleague. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Oughterleague in 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.