placenamesRelickmurry and Athassel
Reilig Mhuire agus Áth Iseal
Lewis recorded industrial employment within the pastoral landscape around Golden.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Reilig Mhuire agus Áth Iseal · Irish · main form · validated name
- Relickmurry and Athassel · English · main form
Place & story
Distilling beside the Golden Vale
A distillery at Castle Lake generally employed between forty and fifty people in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Relickmurry. Thomas Mathew’s residence stood beside it, although Lewis did not identify him as its owner or manager. The distillery brought a manufacturing workplace into a parish landscape that Lewis associated with the Golden Vale and extensive grassland along the Suir. His account does not name the workers or quantify the spirit produced. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.47539, -7.98047
- Mapped area
- 51.55 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2327 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Relickmurry and Athassel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Relickmurry: 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.