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Borris is a civil parish in the barony of Maryborough East in County Leix. [1]
Its 24 townlands are:
Two-Mile Borris is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. The village is located on the L4202 road at the junction with the Ballyduff Road, close to the N75 and 7.5 km (4.7 mi) from Thurles town centre. It is also situated 1.5 km from junction 5 of the M8 motorway. Its population was 502 at the 2006 census. It is situated in the townland of Borris which is part of the civil parish of Twomileborris in the ancient barony of Eliogarty.
Borris may refer to:
Borrisoleigh is a village/small town in County Tipperary, Ireland. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 708, an increase of 82 people on the 2006 census. In recent years the population has exceeded 1,000 and historically the population has been around 8,000. It is in the ecclesiastical parish of Borrisoleigh and Ileigh in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.
Borris-Ileigh Gaelic Athletic Club is a Gaelic games club that is based in the village of Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary, Ireland. The club currently plays hurling and camogie in the county-wide and North division competitions of Tipperary GAA. It formerly participated in Mid Tipperary divisional competitions. It also plays Gaelic football at Junior and under-age levels. The club attracts members from the civil parish of Glenkeen which is co-extensive with the Catholic parish of Borrisoleigh and Ileigh.
Gwersyllt is an urban village and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales.
Summerhill is a designated heritage village in County Meath, Ireland. It is located at the intersection of the R156 and R158 regional roads and is part of the Laracor civil parish. The Irish version of the town's name means "Lynch's Hill", and it was the ancestral home of the Norman-Irish Lynch family, whence came the Galway merchant family of the same name - one of the "Tribes of Galway". It is also the site of one of the most important battles in 17th century Ireland, the Battle of Dungan's Hill. The town was known in English as 'The Knock' or 'Lynchs' Knock' until about 1667 when it was renamed Summerhill. The ruins of the large Lynch castle can be seen in the village today.
Moycarkey-Borris GAA is a Tipperary GAA club which is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. Both hurling and Gaelic football are played in the "Mid-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred on the village of Littleton but also takes in areas such as Two-Mile-Borris, Horse and Jockey, and Moycarkey.
The Electoral district of Maryborough and Talbot was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1877.
Laracor, in Irish Láithreach Cora, is a civil parish which is located in County Meath in Ireland, south of Trim. It overlaps with the electoral division of the same name.
Rathcunikeen or Rathcumrikeen is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymurreen, County Tipperary in Ireland. It is an exclave of the parish, as it is surrounded by the neighbouring civil parish of Two-Mile-Borris.
Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris is an ecclesiastical parish in the Cashel deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. There are three churches in the parish:
Leigh is a townland in the civil parish of Twomileborris, County Tipperary.
Noard is a townland in the civil parish of Twomileborris, County Tipperary. In addition to its main body, the townland has four exclaves, located in other townlands within the parish.
Borrisoleigh and Ileigh is an ecclesiastical parish in the Thurles deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly in Ireland. This parish is unusual among Catholic parishes in Ireland in that it is co-extensive with a civil parish, that of Glenkeen.
Borris is a townland comprising a little over 1,327 acres in the civil parish of Twomileborris in County Tipperary. At the time of the 1891 census, it had a population of 212; in 1891 this had fallen to 175 but had risen again to 190 at the time of the 1911 census.
Knockroe is a townland containing a little over 363 acres in Moycarky civil parish and in the ecclesiastical parish of Moycarkey, Littleton, Two-Mile-Borris, in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Borris is a townland in the civil parish of Roscrea in County Tipperary.
Borris Little is a townland in the civil parish of Borris in the barony of Maryborough East in County Leix.
Borris Great is a townland in the civil parish of Borris in the barony of Maryborough East in County Leix in Ireland.
Garraun is a townland, containing a little over 567 acres, in Twomileborris civil parish in County Tipperary.
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