churches historical around south cahir

Ballyporeen in whose cruciform church (1828) a Michael Reagan, great-grandfather of USA President Ronald Reagan , was baptised on 3 September 1829. a handsome parish publication traces roots.

A pub flourishes the President's name - beside the owner's name in gold lettering over a Victorian corner door. Templetenny Cemetery, burial place of the Reagans , is worth a visit....

The Catholic Church has inside the gate an octagonal stone font with two sections .

The Celtic Cross was erected in the grounds in 1870 in memory of Fr Nicholas sheehy, one of the five people hanged in Clonmel in 1776 on perjured evidence for an alleged murder.

The shaft in the mode of the early Christian high crosses, bears a wide range of religious cum nationalist themes including the Good Samaritan , and Daniel O'Connell with the Catholic Emancipation Act. St Patrick...

Designed by John Nash and completed in 1817, at a cost of IR2,307, the church is a delightful Gothic Revival building. One of only two known Nash designed churches to have survived.

There is a very fine interior with superb plasterwork, stained glass and a vast array of wall plaques. Well worth a visit…...

Built in 1833 by Fr. Michael Tobin. 50 years later it has to be repaired by Rev. Maurice Mooney, P.P. an older Church than the present one had been erected on the spot in 1791. Prior to this parishioners worshipped in a thatched chapel which stood near the entrance gate to Cahir Park.

This Chapel was a chapel of the Penal Days, but the Butlers of that period were Catholics, therefore they provided the people of Cahir with a place of worship In 1895, Lady Charteris leased 3/4 acre of...