Lorrha
Lothra | |
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Village | |
  Lorrha Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°05′32″N 8°07′25″W / 53.0922°N 8.1235°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Website | www |
Lorrha (from Irish: Lothra[1]) is a small village at the northern tip of County Tipperary, Ireland. Ledewich described village as 'Larah' which is the common name for the talk-motes, mote hills etc. P. Dixon Hardy M.R.I.A. describes it as 'Loragh' [2]
It is located on a minor road between the R489 Birr to Portumna road and the N65 Nenagh to Portumna road about five kilometres east of the point where the River Shannon enters Lough Derg.[3]
It is also the name of a townland and a civil parish in the historical [4] barony of Ormond Lower. The civil parish borders Portumna in County Galway and Birr in County Offaly.
- ^ Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)
- ^ Dublin Penny journal' No.86, Vol.II,22 Feb.1834
- ^ "Map".
- ^ "Home - Lorrha/Dorrha Lorrha/Dorrha".