Ballymurreen

Ballymurreen (Irish: Baile Amoraoin), also written Ballymoreen, is a civil parish[1] and an electoral division[2] in County Tipperary, Ireland.

The ruins of a church are still to be seen in Ballymurreen townland, at the junction of a minor road from Holycross with the R639,[3] but there was no parish church in modern times, members of the established church attending services in the neighbouring parish of Borrisleigh, at Littleton which is located between the exclave of Rathcunikeen and the main part of Ballymoreen.

The code number assigned to the electoral division by the Central Statistics Office is 22062.

[4] At the time of both the 1911 census,[5] the division was smaller than the civil parish of the same name, containing just three townlands (Curraheen, Parkstown and Liskeveen) of the seven that belong to the civil parish; the four other townlands from Ballymurreen civil parish belonged to Littleton electoral division.

[citation needed] At the time of the 2011 census, the total population of Ballymurreen electoral division was 254, of which 150 were male and 104 female.

Position of the parish within the civil parishes of North Tipperary
Position of the parish within the parishes of south-eastern North Tipperary, showing the exclave of Rathcunikeen surrounded by Borrisleigh
Townlands in Ballymurreen civil parish. Note that Rathcunikeen townland is an exclave which is located within a neighbouring civil parish, Borrisleigh
Outline map of North Tipperary, showing the boundaries of Ballymurreen electoral division as they were at the time of the 2011 census