Toomevara, officially Toomyvara[2][3] (Irish: Tuaim Uí Mheára, meaning 'tumulus of the Ó Meadhra's'), is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland, 11 km east of Nenagh. It is a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe,[4] and is in the historical barony of Ormond Upper.
Toomevara
Tuaim Uí Mheára (Irish) | |
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Village | |
 Former Church of Ireland church on Toomevara Main St | |
  Toomevara Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°51′00″N 8°02′10″W / 52.85°N 8.036111°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Population | 280 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Transport
editLocal Link Tipperary operates bus service No. 854 between Roscrea and Nenagh which stops at Main Street. The service operates seven days a week with three services in each direction. [5][6][7]
The village is at the junction of the R445 road and the R499 road. The village was bypassed in December 2010 by the M7 Dublin – Limerick motorway.
Sport and recreation
editToomevara GAA club and Toomevara Camogie Club are based in the area.[8][9]
Toomevara is on the route of the Beara-Breifne Way, a long-distance walking and cycling trail between the Beara Peninsula in County Cork and Blacklion in County Cavan.[10]
Medieval Toomevara
editIn the Civil Survey (1654-6) Toomevara is described as 'the sd manor of Tome ye privilege of a Court Leete & a Court Barron, a Fayre twice a yeare, & a markett every Tuesday'.[11] In the centre of the village are the ruins of a possible rectangular church building composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a possible priest's chamber at the West end. The wall construction different from that of the nearby priory suggesting a different date for the construction of this building. It may have been a late medieval parish church associated with the village of Toomevara. It is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302.[12]
Augustinian Priory
editNext to St Joseph's Church are the remains of an Augustinian priory dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140. The site was possibly an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. The priory was a daughterhouse of Monaincha and appears to have been strongly associated with the ruling O'Meara dynasty. In 1450 the warden pleaded that, on account of poverty, the value being under 16 marks he and his convent could not be decently maintained, nor repair the cloister and other buildings, most of which had been burnt down during wars. Donogh O'Meara was building a castle here in 1541. In 1597 Miler mac Grath was granted the 'site, circuit and precint of the late priory of Thome' with a 'butt of a ruined castle with certain ruined chambers thatched'. At the dissolution the property of the priory of Toomevara is listed as 'one castle, wall and other buildings on the site'.[13]
Notable people
editGallery
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Nave and Altar of St Joseph's -
North Wall of Toomyvara Priory -
Nave of Toomyvara Priory -
St Joseph's Church
References
edit- ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlements Toomevara". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland: Toomyvara". Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ Ordnance Survey of Ireland, ed. (1997). Discovery Series 59. ISBN 1-901496-21-X.
- ^ Parishes of Killaloe Diocese. Archived 2010-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "New daily services from Local Link | Nenagh Guardian". Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Local Link Tipperary announces 2 New Daily Bus Services - Local Link Tipperary". Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Route 854 - Roscrea to Nenagh timetable". Local Link Tipperary. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Toomevara". Archived from the original on 26 July 2009.
- ^ "www.toomecamogie.com". Archived from the original on 1 July 2007. Archived 1 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Beara Breifne Way | Tracing the Footsteps of O'Sullivan Beare". Archived from the original on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Archaeological Survey Database SMR No TN022-070". National Monuments Service. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "Archaeological Survey Database SMR No TN022-070001". National Monuments Service. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "Archaeological Survey Database SMR No TN022-070002". National Monuments Service. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
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