Charles Bianconi’s local estate and family chapel give Boherlahan a distinctive architectural connection with Italy, while a historical journal records the wider parish.
⊕Recorded locationBoherlahan52.57049° N · 7.89211° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
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Recorded forms
An Bóthar Leathan· Irish · main form · validated name
Boherlahan· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Charles Bianconi at Longfield
The transport entrepreneur Charles Bianconi purchased Longfield House from Captain Richard Long in March 1846. Seamus J. King’s account describes the reception when Bianconi moved there that September: roadside bonfires, an arch over the avenue gates, a visiting band from Cashel and an evening dance. In his speech to tenants and labourers, Bianconi spoke of obligations as well as privileges attached to owning property. Longfield anchors his association with Boherlahan in a particular residence and estate, alongside the coaching business for which he is better known.[2]
A chapel facing the park
The family mortuary chapel, dedicated to Saint Catherine, stands beside a long grassed space in Boherlahan. Its separate bell tower and the semicircular carved feature high on the front give it a markedly Italian character. Conservation architects Karol O’Mahony Architects draw a comparison with the church and piazza of Bianconi’s birthplace, Costa Masnaga in Lombardy; both settings include relief Stations of the Cross. The Friends of Bianconi Society commissioned a conservation report, with Heritage Council funding in 2024, to examine the building’s significance, condition and future repairs.[3]
Writing the parish’s history
The nineteenth Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal was launched in the Parochial Hall on 11 November 2016 by storyteller and poet Tim Joe McGrath. Its twenty-one articles ranged across local political events, farming, craft work, families and community organisations, with photographs, sketches and maps. Children from St Isidore’s National School opened the occasion with a short First World War drama, researched and scripted by Anne O’Dwyer and directed by Irene Dwan. The event brought school performance and voluntary historical research together in the village’s own hall.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Boherlahan — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Boherlahan, Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
299people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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