placenamesCashel
Caiseal
The Bolton collection preserves Cashel’s connection with early printed books and scholarship.
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
- Caiseal · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cashel · English · main form
Place & story
Two collectors
The Bolton Library grew from collections assembled by William King and Theophilus Bolton between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Bolton acquired much of King’s library after King died in 1729 and brought it to Cashel. The University of Limerick’s research guide emphasises the breadth of their interests, extending beyond religion into languages, travel, mathematics and medicine. [2]
A home beside the cathedral
Henry Cotton, previously associated with Oxford’s Bodleian Library, became librarian in 1822. Tipperary’s heritage account credits him with organising a new chapter house and library around 1835 after the collection had to leave the archbishop’s palace grounds. William Tinsley designed the replacement building beside Cashel’s cathedral. [3]
Conservation and cataloguing
The University of Limerick records the collection’s transfer to its Glucksman Library in late 2016. The move provided controlled environmental conditions for fragile volumes. New cataloguing also records bindings, previous ownership and manuscript fragments reused within books, preserving evidence of their individual histories. [4] [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Civil parish
- Saint Johnbaptist
- Coordinates
- 52.51612, -7.88779
- Mapped area
- 0.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 47909 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cashel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bolton Library:research guide · Special Collections and Archives, University of Limerick
- The Bolton Library,2025heritage account · Tipperary Heritage Office
- Bolton Library:conservation and cataloguing project · Special Collections and Archives, University of Limerick
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.