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| | Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, Lewis 1837©Jane Lyons |
 | | FETHARD, an incorporated market and post-town, (formerly a parliamentary borough), and a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD, county of TIPPERARY, and province of Munster, 7 miles (N.) from Clonmel, and 78 (S.W.) from Dublin by Urlingford (Co. Kilkenny); containing 3962 inhabitants; of which number 3400 are in the town and liberties. |
 | | This place, which appears to have derived its name from the Irish "Faith-Ard", the "summit or hill of the plain," is of considerable antiquity. |
 | | The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, united by act of council, in 1682, to the rectories and vicarages of Pepperstown, Kilbragh, Cloneen, and Rathcoole, and to the entire rectories of Kilconnel and Railstown, together forming the union of Fethard, in the patronage of the Archbishop. |
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