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Recorded forms
Carraig na Siúire· Irish · main form · validated name
Carrick-on-Suir· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Thomas Butler’s Elizabethan house
Thomas Butler, tenth Earl of Ormond, built the manor house at Carrick-on-Suir in the 1560s, adjoining an older riverside castle. His experience at the English court shaped its design and decoration. The long great hall contains stucco portraits of Elizabeth I and Edward VI, together with emblems of the Tudor monarchy. The display expressed Butler’s political connections within the rooms of his Irish residence.[2]
A bridge with successive repairs
The Old Bridge crosses the Suir on heavy stone piers with projecting cutwaters and pedestrian refuges. The architectural inventory dates its origins to 1447; it also appears on the Down Survey map of 1656. Two former arches were replaced by a wider navigation arch around 1925. The crossing connects the town with Carrickbeg and its narrow streets on the opposite bank.[3]
People & connections
Elizabeth Preston’s household
Elizabeth Preston married James Butler in 1629, bringing together divided interests in the Ormond estate. The couple lived at Carrick-on-Suir before James succeeded to the earldom in 1633. During the following years Elizabeth raised a large family, losing several children in infancy. After the outbreak of rebellion in 1641 she moved to Kilkenny Castle while her husband commanded the royal army.[4]
Institutions around the castle town
Lewis’s 1837 account records schools run by the Christian Brothers and Presentation Sisters, a fever hospital and a dispensary. Bequests from Thomas and Richard Wadden helped support a poorhouse. Parts of the castle remained occupied while other sections were ruinous. The nineteenth-century town combined these charitable institutions with the older residences and river crossing.[5]
Carrick-on-Suir — Census 2016 settlement footprint
Population within 2016 settlement boundaries
5,905people · 2022
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Carrick-on-Suir — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Carrick-on-Suir Legal Town, South Tipperary — Legal town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Carrick-on-Suir Legal Town, South Tipperary — Legal town, CSO 1996 report — census population
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Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary — Legal town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary — 2011 legal town and environs; 2016 census settlement
Published census settlement populations
5,771people · 2016
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Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary — 2011 legal town and environs; 2016 census settlement — census population
Ormond Castle Tudor manor, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary illustration: based on a Ormond Castle, Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary by Humphrey Bolton. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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