Cashel, County Tipperary

Cashel
Caiseal
Town
Panorama of town from the Rock of Cashel
Panorama of town from the Rock of Cashel
Cashel is located in Ireland
Cashel
Cashel
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°31′00″N 7°53′22″W / 52.516717°N 7.889428°W / 52.516717; -7.889428
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Tipperary
BaronyMiddle Third
Elevation
125 m (410 ft)
Population
 • Total4,422
Time zoneUTC0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (IST)
Eircode
E25
Area code062
Irish Grid ReferenceS075408
Websitewww.cashel.ie

Cashel (/ˈkæʃəl/; Irish: Caiseal, meaning 'stone ringfort')[5] is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 4,422 in the 2016 census.[1] The town gives its name to the ecclesiastical province of Cashel. Additionally, the cathedra of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly was originally in the town prior to the English Reformation. It is part of the parish of Cashel and Rosegreen in the same archdiocese.[6] One of the six cathedrals of the Anglican Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, who currently resides in Kilkenny, is located in the town. It is in the civil parish of St. Patricksrock[7] which is in the historical barony of Middle Third.

  1. ^ a b "Census 2016 – Small Area Population Statistics (SAPMAP Area) – Settlements – Cashel". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. ^ http://www.cso.ie/census Archived 20 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine and http://www.histpop.org Archived 7 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Post 1961 figures include environs of Cashel For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see JJ Lee "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses" in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p54, and also "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850" by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (November 1984), pp. 473–488.
  3. ^ "Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area" (PDF). Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  4. ^ "SAPMAP 2011 – Cashel". CSO. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
  6. ^ Parish of Cashel and Rosegreen, diosesan website. Archived 28 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland – civil parish and barony details". Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2011.

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