Hide
--- TEST SYSTEM --- TEST SYSTEM --- TEST SYSTEM ---
Hide
Drangan
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
DRANGAN, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD, county of Tipperary, and province of MUNSTER, 4½ miles (N. E.) from Fethard; containing 1804 inhabitants.
It comprises 5300 statute acres of tolerably good arable and pasture land, as applotted under the tithe act; and is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, forming part of the union of Killenaule: the tithes amount to £325. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Cloneen; the chapel is a plain building. There are four pay schools, in which are about 150 boys and 170 girls; and in the village is a constabulary police station.
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.
Hide
The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Drangan to another place.
Tithe Applotment Books for county Tipperary and its parishes are available online on the National Archives of Ireland website.
The entry for Drangan from Griffiths Valuation 1847/64
You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference S2920241417 (Lat/Lon: 52.523757, -7.570504), Drangan which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Copy
Dranganand paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland. - GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.