placenamesShanrahan
Seanraithin
Lewis distinguished Viscount Lismore’s wooded castle grounds from a separate lodge and plantation in the Galtees.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Seanraithin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Shanrahan · English · main form
Place & story
Two estate landscapes in 1837
Samuel Lewis placed Shanbally Castle within Shanrahan parish in 1837 and attributed the mansion to Nash of London. He described an 820-acre demesne in the valley between the Galtees and the Waterford mountains. His account separately mentions a lodge recently built for Viscount Lismore in a glen of the Galtees, surrounded by about 150 acres of plantation. Agricultural improvements supervised by the viscount provided local employment. These were distinct settings in Lewis’s description: the smaller mountain plantation was not the acreage of the castle demesne. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Coordinates
- 52.27981, -8.05096
- Mapped area
- 100.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2329 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shanrahan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shanrahan: 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.