en.wikipedia.org

Leigh, County Tipperary - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ruins of the Liathmore-Mochoemóg monastery site in Leigh townland

Leigh (Irish: Liath, meaning 'grey place')[1] is a townland in the civil parish of Twomileborris, County Tipperary, Ireland.[2] It is 8.68 square kilometres (3.35 sq mi) in area.[2] At the time of the 1911 census, there were 17 households in the townland.[3] As of the 2011 census, Leigh townland had a population of 64 people in 18 occupied houses.[4]

The medieval ecclesiastical site of Liathmore-Mochoemóg is within the townland.[5]

  1. ^ "Liath / Leigh". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Leigh Townland, Co. Tipperary". townlands.ie. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Houses in Leigh (Two-Mile-Borris, Tipperary)". census.nationalarchives.ie.
  4. ^ "CD170 - Tipperary Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". data.gov.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  5. ^ Leask, H. G.; MacAlister, R. A. S. (1945). "Liathmore-Mochoemóg (Leigh), County Tipperary". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 51: 1–14. JSTOR 25505987.

52°40′N 7°40′W / 52.67°N 7.67°W