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Tipperary

Tiobraid Árann

Two buildings in Carrownreddy preserve the nineteenth-century arrangement of court business and detention on Saint Michael’s Street.

Recorded locationTipperary52.48497° N · 8.18643° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Tiobraid Árann · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Tipperary · English · main form

Place & story

A courthouse turned from the street

Tipperary Courthouse was built in 1839 with a two-storey front and a projecting rear range forming a T-shaped plan. Its entrance elevation faces away from the street. The architectural inventory attributes its standard design to William Caldbeck, while recording the limestone doorcases, heavy horizontal stone bands and round-headed courtroom windows. The adjoining bridewell made the site a connected group of judicial buildings rather than a courthouse standing alone. [2]

Three blocks for detention

The bridewell, dated by the inventory to about 1845, comprises three separate blocks once linked by first-floor bridges. The central building has a partly polygonal end, and the former exercise area survives within a curved stone enclosure. Small barred windows on the rear elevations distinguish the buildings’ original function from their relatively domestic appearance. The survey records their subsequent restoration and office use, retaining evidence of detention within an altered complex. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Tipperary
Coordinates
52.48497, -8.18643
Mapped area
17.75 km²
Logainm ID
2342 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Tipperary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Tipperary Courthouse, Carrownreddy, NIAH22108017 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Tipperary Gaol, Carrownreddy, NIAH22108018 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.