placenamesNewtown
An Baile Nua
A North Tipperary match programme connects Newtown players with the wider Burgess and Youghalarra sporting tradition.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- An Baile Nua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Newtown · English · main form
Place & story
From Carrigatoher to a new playing field
The club history printed in the 1976 North Tipperary final programme names Pat Conway and Mick Hogan of Newtown among the players on the Burgess and Youghal parish team that competed as Carrigatoher in 1887. It records their narrow championship-final defeat, 1–2 to 1–1, by North Tipperary. A later section documents Burgess’s purchase of a playing field in 1975 for £10,500. The account links Newtown’s players with a parish sporting history extending well beyond the village. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Newtown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- North Tipperary Senior Hurling Final programme1976,pp19 and29: Burgess and Youghalarra club history · North Tipperary GAA Board; digitised by Tipperary Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.