Grangemockler

Place in Munster, Ireland
Grangemockler
Gráinseach Mhóicléir
Saint Mary's RC Church, Grangemockler
Saint Mary's RC Church, Grangemockler
52°26′43″N 7°28′09″W / 52.4453°N 7.4693°W / 52.4453; -7.4693
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyTipperary
Irish grid referenceS361328

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

  • 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]
  • Michael Hogan (1896–1920), Gaelic footballer killed in the Croke Park massacre[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gráinseach Mhóicléir". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  2. ^ "CD170 - Tipperary Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". Central Statistics Office. 2011. Grangemockler, Garrangibbon, Co. Tipperary [..] 193
  3. ^ "Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Grangemockler, Tipperary South". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "De Brún, Pádraig (Browne, Patrick)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Remembering Michael Hogan". gaa.ie. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
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