Grangemockler
Grangemockler
Gráinseach Mhóicléir | |
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 Saint Mary's RC Church, Grangemockler | |
  Grangemockler Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°26′43″N 7°28′09″W / 52.4453°N 7.4693°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Tipperary |
| Irish grid reference | S361328 |
Grangemockler (Irish: Gráinseach Mhóicléir)[1] is a village, civil parish and townland in southeastern County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located 2 km (1.2 mi) southwest of Ninemilehouse on the N76 national secondary road. As of the 2011 census, Grangemockler townland had a population of 193 people.[2]
Grangemockler is the home of Grangemockler/Ballyneale GAA club. The local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Saint Mary and was built c. 1880.[3]
People
[edit]- Michael Browne (1887–1971), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church[4]
- Pádraig de Brún (1889–1960), clergyman, mathematician, academic and president of University College Galway[5]
- Daniel Hogan (1895-1940), Irish revolutionary who fought in the Irish war of independence 1919-1921[citation needed]
- Michael Hogan (1896–1920), Gaelic footballer killed in the Croke Park massacre[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Gráinseach Mhóicléir". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "CD170 - Tipperary Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". Central Statistics Office. 2011.
Grangemockler, Garrangibbon, Co. Tipperary [..] 193
- ^ "Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Grangemockler, Tipperary South". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "Michael Cardinal Browne Dies; Tradition's Voice at Vatican II". The New York Times. 1 April 1971. p. 44. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
He was born at Grangemockler, County Tipperary, on May 6, 1887
- ^ "De Brún, Pádraig (Browne, Patrick)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "Remembering Michael Hogan". gaa.ie. 4 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
He was born in 1896 and grew up on the family farm outside the village of Grangemockler in Tipperary
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