placenamesTullaghmelan
Tulaigh Mhaoláin
Lewis recorded the Donoughmore estate and a family vault in his 1837 parish description.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulaigh Mhaoláin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullaghmelan · English · main form
Place & story
Knocklofty beside the Suir
Samuel Lewis described Knocklofty as the Earl of Donoughmore’s seat in a wooded demesne, bounded to the south by the Suir. Together with its deer park, the grounds covered about 320 acres in his account. He also recorded an eighty-pupil parochial school chiefly supported by the earl, who had built its schoolhouse. The notice dates these arrangements to the period of his 1837 dictionary. [2]
John, second Earl of Donoughmore
Lewis identified John, second Earl of Donoughmore, as buried in the family vault at Tullaghmelan. He had succeeded Sir Ralph Abercromby in command of the army in Egypt and became Baron Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knocklofty in 1801. He died in 1832. This burial association is separate from the school patronage Lewis recorded later, which should not automatically be assigned to the deceased second earl. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Coordinates
- 52.31999, -7.81957
- Mapped area
- 10.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2345 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullaghmelan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tulloghmeelan or Tullamellon: 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.