placenamesAnnacarty
Áth na Cairte
Annacarty’s nineteenth-century church and striking former police barracks frame a village landscape marked by revolutionary history.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Áth na Cairte · Irish · main form · validated name
- Annacarty · English · main form
Place & story
A police barracks with towers and battlements
The ruined barracks on the hill at Annacarty was built around 1820. Its projecting corner towers, battlements and small corbelled turret gave a police building the appearance of a fortress. Limestone walls and sandstone surrounds remain visible, with openings arranged for defence as well as daylight. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage suggests that nearby Ballysheeda Castle may have influenced the design. Destroyed in 1922 during the Civil War, the barracks survives as a conspicuous ruin above the village. [2]
Saint Brigid’s sandstone church
Saint Brigid’s Catholic Church was built in 1870 in a cruciform plan. Different shades of sandstone enliven its walls and window arches, while pointed openings and tracery establish its Gothic Revival character. Inside, an exposed timber roof rises above an elaborate marble reredos with carved figures, coloured columns and pinnacles. A separate cast-iron belfry stands north of the church. These details give the building interest both as a village landmark and as a setting for nineteenth-century craftsmanship. [3]
Remembering members of the local company
The memorial at the village road junction was erected in 1976 by the Third Tipperary Brigade Old IRA Commemoration Committee. Its principal inscription commemorates Brigadier Denis Lacey, killed in the Glen of Aherlow on 18 February 1923. Other inscriptions remember three members of the Annacarty company: Sean O’Riordan, Michael Ryan and Daniel Carew. Their recorded places of death—Ballingarry, Ballybrack and Dublin—show how the monument gathers losses from several locations into a local act of remembrance. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Annacarty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Annacarty Constabulary Barrack, Mealclye, inventory 22205111 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Brigid’s Catholic Church, Rossacrow, inventory 22205110 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Annacarty IRA Memorial: inscription inventory · Michael Dolan, Irish War Memorials, recorded February 2008
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