Ormond Lower


Ormond Lower is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Nenagh. The barony lies between Ormond Upper to the south-east and Owney and Arra to the south-west. As a "peninsula", it is surrounded on three sides by counties Galway and Offaly.

Legal context

Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions of counties and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic túath which had submitted to the Crown. The Earl of Ormond wrongly applied the name "Ormond" to two baronies as they were never part of the eastern Kingdom of Ormond; rather they were part of the tuath of Muskerry Tire which was subject to the north-western Kingdom of Thomond. - Tipperary

Modern times

When County Tipperary was split into North and South Ridings in 1836, Ormond Lower was allocated to the north riding. However, the neighbouring barony of Kilnamanagh was split into Upper and Lower half-baronies, being allocated to the north and south ridings respectively.

Towns, villages and townlands of the barony

Civil parishes

This table lists an historical geographical sub-division of the barony known as the civil parish.
Name in IrishName in English
An tAonachNenagh
Ard CróineArdcrony
Baile an GharraíBallingarry
Baile Locha CaoinLoughkeen
Buiríos Uí ChéinBorrisokane
Cill BharráinKilbarron
Cill Ó dTiarnáinKillodiernan
Cill RuáinKilruane
Cloch an PhrióraCloughprior
An CnaoiKnigh
Drom InbhirDromineer
DuraDorrha
Eaglais ChlocháinAglishcloghane
FionnúFinnoe
LothraLorrha
Maigh DrithneModreeny
Maigh SaothaMonsea
Tír Dhá GhlasTerryglass
UisceánUskane

Other villages and townlands

, Ballysteena, Ballyquirk, Borrisokane, Cloughjordan, Cloghjordanpark, Cowbawn, Crotta, Drumnamahane Island, Eminiska, Feigh West, Firgrove, Graigue, Islandwood, Johnstown, Killeen, Kilruane, Lehinch, Lorrha, Loughkeen, Modreeny, Mulinkeagh, Newtown, Newtown, Newtown, O’Meara’s Acres, Oxpark, Portland, Quakerstown, Richmond, Stoneyacre, Townfields, Uskane, Willsborough.