Ballylooby, Cahir - Book of County Tipperary, 1889
About “The Book of County Tipperary,” 1889
George Henry Bassett produced 7 Irish county directories in the 1880s: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Kilkenny, Louth, Tipperary and Wexford. Each provides useful history of the respective counties as well as lists of office holders, farmers, traders, and other residents of the individual cities, towns and villages.
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Trout-fishing.
Ballylooby is a village of 14 houses, in the barony of Iffa and Offa, west, 4 miles, Irish, south by west from Cahir, on the road to Clogheen. The land of the surrounding country is good. Oats and potatoes are the principal crops, but the greater part of the farms are devoted to pasture for dairy purposes, dry stock, etc. A small stream, running through the village, is good for brown trout.
Catholic Ch.: Rev. Rt. Foran, P.P., Rev. Dd. J. O’Connor, C.C.
Church of Id., Tubrid—Rev. W. T. Butler
Grocers: Jas. Keating, John O’Brien, Terence O’Brien, Wm. Sheehy
Post M.: Miss Bt. Keating
R.I.C.: J. Gaffney
School Nl.: James Hannon, Miss Susan M. Keating
Spirits: Mgt. Casey, J. Keating
FARMERS AND RESIDENTS.
Barrett, Dl., Poulaculleare
Barrett, Jno., Poulaculleare
Connors, Mrs. Mt., Burgess
Devereaux, Thos., West Burgess
Flinn, John, Parkaderreen
Heffernan, Rd., Curraghatoor
Hogan, Denis, Burgess Mansion
Keating, Mrs. E., Scartana
Keating Ptk., Knockane
Keating, Robert, Scartana
Lonergan, Mrs. C., Kilroe
Lonergan, Philip, Curraghatoor
McGrath, John, Cloheenafishoge
McGrath, Mrs. Mt.. Rehill
McGrath, Mrs. My., Kilroe
McGrath, M., Whitechurch
Magrath, Patk., Cloheenafishoge
Maher, Michael, Rehill
Mahony, Michael, Burgess New
Morrissey, John, Burgess Mansion
Morrissey, Patrick, Kilcoran
Morrissey, Rd., Kilcoran
Mullaney, Ml., Burgess Mansion
O’Brien, John, Kilroe
O’Brien, James, Derravoher
O’Brien, Ptk., jun., Kilroe
O’Brien, Thos., Parkaderreen
O’Donnell, Rd., Ballyallavoe
Prendergast, Jas., Curraghatoor
Prendergast, Wm., Burgess
Sheehan, James, Kilcoran
Sheehan, John, Kilcoran
Sheehan, Morgan, Kilcoran
Sheehy, Edward, Poulavalla
Tobin, Michael, Rehill
Tobin, Thomas, Moanroe
Whelan, Ml., Burgess Mansion
Whelan, Thomas, Derravoher
Whelan, William, Derravoher
Wilkinson, Mrs. E., Knockanegurm