placenamesMiddlethird
An Trian Meánach
Two parish descriptions preserve details of the barony’s nineteenth-century landscape.
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
- An Trian Meánach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Middlethird · English · main form
Place & story
Quarries and farmland
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Saint Johnstown, also called Scaddanstown, placed it in Tipperary’s Middlethird barony. He recorded limestone quarries among its cultivated land and pasture, alongside the square tower of Saint Johnstown Castle. Elsewhere in the barony, at Gaile, he singled out Killough Hill as a landmark rising above flat surroundings. About thirty acres of rock there interrupted the parish’s arable and grazing land; its planted southwestern slope formed part of the Gaile demesne. [2] [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Middlethird. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Johnstown (St.): A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Geale: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.