Moycarkey (electoral division)

It was originally an electoral division in the Thurles Poor Law Union in North Tipperary[1][2] but is still used for various administrative purposes.

[3] However, this may not have been the case in 1848; the properties listed in a poor law rate document[4] which is dated October 1948 and which seems to be about Moycarkey electoral division include several townlands that are not in Moycarky civil parish, specifically: However, at the time of the 1911 census, the electoral division was co-extensive with the civil parish.

The census returns for the division listed households[5][6] exactly the townlands in the civil parish, showing that all of them except Smithsfarm which, probably because of its small size (just over 18 acres), did not contain any dwelling - indeed, none is shown on either this Ordnance Survey map or this one.

On 3 October 1848, Vernon Lanphier of Parkstown in Ballymoreen civil parish was elected as rate collector for Moycarkey electoral division of Thurles Poor Law Union.

Probably a reflection of the immigration from Eastern Europe to Ireland which had happened in the so-called "Celtic Tiger" period, two of these residents had been born in Poland.