town information around templemore

Borrisoleigh ( the burgage or Norman borough of Ileigh barony), a small market town on the Nenagh-Thurles road, has some Georgian architecture and traditional shopfronts. As you enter a pair of red sandstone houses catch the eye. Through the arched gateway beside them is a ruined rectangular 15th century tower house - a de Burgo fortress. Of most interest is an inscribed slab inserted into the gable of the sandstone house with the names of Richard Burke and Ellice Hurley, 1643, clearly legible...