placenamesToem
Tuaim
Lewis connected Toem’s former religious house with Inchenemeo and an Elizabethan grant to Archbishop Miler Magrath.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Tuaim · Irish · main form · validated name
- Toem · English · main form
Place & story
The priory in Lewis’s account
Samuel Lewis’s entry for Toom, or Toem, describes a former priory of Canons Regular dedicated to St Donan. He identifies the house as a dependent cell of the abbey of Inchenemeo and states that it survived until the dissolution. According to his account, Queen Elizabeth granted it to Miler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, in the twenty-eighth year of her reign. Lewis treated Donan’s role as founder as probable, so that suggestion does not establish a documented foundation date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.64782, -8.17405
- Mapped area
- 49.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2343 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Toem. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Toom, or Toem: 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.