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Recorded forms
Bealach an Tirialaigh· Irish · main form · validated name
Tyrrellspass· English · main form
Place & story
Jane’s charitable bequest
Jane, Countess of Belvedere left £6,000 for an orphanage serving Protestant girls. The institution operated from 1842 to 1943, with cottages arranged along a crescent and a school and matron’s house at its ends. Teaching prepared pupils for employment in businesses and domestic service. After closure, local families rented the houses; Westmeath County Council later acquired and refurbished them. The crescent preserves an institutional history within buildings that became ordinary homes.[2]
A limestone entrance
The northern gateway of the former Belvedere Orphan Institution dates from about 1840. Cut-limestone piers with shallow pyramidal caps stand between curved sections of rubble-limestone wall. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records the entrance as part of the charitable foundation established through Jane’s bequest. Its modest scale offers a different architectural expression of her legacy from the more conspicuous buildings around the village green.[3]
The church above the green
St Sinian’s occupies an elevated position overlooking the green. During Jane’s improvements to Tyrrellspass, the church was extended in 1823 and gained its steeple. Battlements, window tracery and the slender spire give it a distinctive outline. Inside is a memorial to George Augustus, second Earl of Belvedere, commissioned by Jane from the sculptor John Bacon junior. Her patronage therefore survives in both the village’s public architecture and a personal commemoration of her husband.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Tyrrellspass — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
493people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
396people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
328people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Tyrrellspass, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Tyrrellspass, Westmeath
Published census settlement populations
483people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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