Church of St. Mary, Lordship

Lordship (Irish: An Tiarnas)[1] is a rural area and census town in County Louth, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of Ballymascanlan.

The local Roman Catholic church, the Church of St Mary, was built c. 1860 and is in the parish of Lordship & Ballymascanlon of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh.[2][3] The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is St Patrick's.[4] Founded in 1953, the club has won the Louth Senior Football Championship on several occasions.[5]

Lordship was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[6] at which time it had a population of 486 people.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "An Tiarnas / Lordship". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Piedmont, Louth". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Parish Details - Lordship (Lordship & Ballymascanlon)". armagharchdiocese.org. Archdiocese of Armagh. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "County champs St. Patricks serving fast growing area with new community centre". independent.ie. Independent News & Media. 7 November 2003. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "St Patricks Lordship GFC". clubinfo.ie. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement". cso.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 5 September 2021. 26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Lordship
  7. ↑ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Lordship". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "Lordship (Ireland) Census Town". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

54°00′00″N 6°15′53″W / 53.9999°N 6.2646°W / 53.9999; -6.2646

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