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Fethard

Fiodh Ard

Two electoral divisions split the census return for this Tipperary townland.

Watercolour and fine ink view of Fethard's stone North Gate with its broad road arch and smaller pedestrian arch.
Illustration, the North Gate at Fethard, County Tipperary, as photographed in September 1995
Recorded locationFethard52.46969° N · 7.69449° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

ardheight; highfiodhwood

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

  • Fiodh Ard · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Fethard · English · main form

Place & story

The town’s return

Fethard town had 1,473 inhabitants in 1911, 749 male and 724 female. It contained 321 occupied houses, nine empty houses and one house under construction, and covered 179 acres, two roods and eleven perches. The table identifies this as the urban part of Fethard townland in Fethard electoral division, Fethard parish and Middlethird barony. [2]

The rural remainder

The remaining part of Fethard townland lay in Peppardstown electoral division. It had thirty-one inhabitants, fifteen male and sixteen female, in six occupied houses, and covered 357 acres and twenty-eight perches. Footnotes link the two parts across the tables. Both belonged to Fethard dispensary district and Cashel Poor Law Union in Tipperary South Riding; the rural population was separate from the town’s 1,473. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Fethard
Coordinates
52.46969, -7.69449
Mapped area
2.17 km²
Logainm ID
47849 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Fethard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed pages 25–26 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. North Gate, Fethard, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Fethard North Gate 2 - Fethard, County Tipperary by Martin Richard Phelan. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Additional reference: Fethard North Gate 1 - Fethard, County Tipperary by Martin Richard Phelan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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