Moyaliff

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Moyaliff
Maigh Ailbhe
Townland
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Moyaliff
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°34′27″N7°53′45″W / 52.5743°N 7.8959°W / 52.5743; -7.8959
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Tipperary
Elevation
100 m (330 ft)
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference S046555

Moyaliff (historically Moaliffe "Mealiff", from Irish : Maigh Ailbhe) [1] is a civil parish and townland in County Tipperary, Ireland. The civil parish is in the barony of Kilnamanagh Upper. It has 31 townlands in total; 27 of these townlands are in the Roman Catholic Parish of Upperchurch-Drombane, three in the Roman Catholic parish of Holycross-Ballycahill and one townland Moyaliff itself shared between the two.

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The name is composed of two Irish words: Maigh, meaning 'plain' and "Ailbhe", Irish for Alvy, giving the full name of Maigh Ailbhe or Alvy's Plain. [1]

Townlands

The civil parish has 31 townlands: [2]

Historical barony

According to the Down Survey of Ireland, part of the historical parish of Moyaliff (then known as Moaliffe) was in the now defunct barony of Killnelongurty. [3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Maigh Ailbhe/Moyaliff (also see Archival records)". Placenames Database of Ireland . Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  2. ↑ Townlands of Moyaliff
  3. ↑ "Killnelongurty Barony". downsurvey.tcd.ie.
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