Tinahely
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Tinahely Tigh na hÉille
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Dwyer Square
Former Market House, at left, is now a public library |
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 Tinahely
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| Coordinates: 52°48′00″N 6°28′00″W / 52.800000°N 6.466667°WCoordinates: 52°48′00″N 6°28′00″W / 52.800000°N 6.466667°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Wicklow |
| Elevation | 116 m (381 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 970 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | T033731 |
Tinahely (Irish: Tigh na hÉille, meaning "House of Éille") is a village in County Wicklow in Ireland. It is a market town in the valley of the Derry River, a tributary of the River Slaney.
It is located on the R747 road which links the west Wicklow town of Baltinglass with Arklow on the east coast. The village is situated near the southern point of the Wicklow Way which winds through the Wicklow Mountains. The River Derry runs through the village. In the census of 2011, the population was recorded at 970, although there were 1537 people in the Tinahely electoral division.
Most of the village dates from the early part of the 19th century as it was rebuilt by Lord Fitzwilliam after it was burnt during the 1798 rebellion. The Fiztwilliam family lived in nearby Coolattin House. The Coollattin estate once comprised 88,000 acres (360 km2), had 20,000 tenants and occupied almost a quarter of County Wicklow.
Tinahely is unusual in that there is no Church in the village. St. Kevin's church lies 2 km to the east of the village in the townland of Kilaveny overlooking the valley of the Derry stream. The church was erected in 1843 when it replaced another structure located in the adjacent townland of Whitefield which had been burned down on November 11, 1798 by Yeomen soldiers in reprisal for local activity during the 1798 Rebellion. The Whitefield church was replaced by a temporary wooden structure until the erection of St. Kevin's church. The original structure had been erected during the Penal Laws in 1700 and was cruciform in style with two trancepts and a nave. Nothing now remains of the original church except for the cemetery that was attached to it. No burials have taken place in the cemetery since the mid 1900s. In the Jubilee Year 2000, parishioners erected a carved commemorative limestone marker on the site of the original church, in the present Whitefield Cemetery, setting out the above history.
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