What is "kilbrickane"

Kilbrickane ( Irish: Cill Bhreacáin, meaning "the church of Bracken") is a relatively small townland, measuring just over 78 acres, in the civil parish of Loughmoe East, County Tipperary. The townland is 2km from the village of Loughmore, 4km from Templemore and 8km from Thurles.

The townland house, Kilbrickane House - completed in 1854 by the Yorkshire-based absentee landlord Rev. Christopher Alderson - is still in good condition. It appears on the map of the townland that was made in the second Ordnance Survey in the last decade of the 19th century. The map of the townland made in the first Ordnance Survey, taken in the first half of the 19th century, shows an earlier, smaller, house, located midway down the avenue which leads from the later house to the road that runs along the eastern boundary of the townland. This earlier map also shows two sets of buildings in the western side of the townland that had disappeared by the time of the second survey in the last decade of the 19th century. Many of the field boundaries had also been changed between the two surveys.