placenamesTullowphelim
Tulach Ó bhFeilme
Lewis recorded a seventeenth-century defence of a castle already lost when he wrote.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulach Ó bhFeilme · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tullowphelim · English · main form
Place & story
Butler’s defence and the later site
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records Colonel Butler defending Tullow’s castle against a parliamentarian army in 1650. After resistance, it fell to Colonels Hewson and Reynolds. Lewis stated that no remains of the castle then survived. He separately recorded a damaged stone cross in a burial ground south of the Slaney as the surviving relic of the Augustinian abbey. These were distinct sites in his account: the cross was associated with the abbey, rather than identified as a remnant of the castle. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullowphelim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullow or Tullowphelim: 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.