{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Tubrid |native_name = {{Native name|ga|Tiobraid|paren=omit}} |other_name = |settlement_type = Civil parish |image_skyline = Ruins at Tubrid, County Tipperary June 2010.jpg |image_caption = View of two church ruins at Tubrid. |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Munster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Tipperary |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_total = |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = WET |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = IST (WEST) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = {{coord|52.315|-7.95|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = <!-- {{iem4ibx|??????}} --> |website = |footnotes = }}

'''Tubrid''' or '''Tubbrid''' ({{langx|ga|Tiobraid}})<ref name=logainm>{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/2344 | title = Tiobraid/Tubbrid | work = Placenames Database of Ireland | access-date = 23 August 2024}}</ref> is a civil and former ecclesiastical parish situated between the towns of Cahir and Clogheen in County Tipperary, Ireland. A cluster of architectural remains at the old settlement still known as Tubrid includes an ancient cemetery and two ruined churches of regional historical significance.

== Location == Tubrid is located about {{convert|4|km}} from the village of Ballylooby, adjacent to an old stone bridge near Burgess. In 1841, the mail-road between Cork and Dublin via Cahir still passed through the village.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland...'as Existing in 1814-45'|publisher=A. Fullarton and co. |year=1846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RRRBxFTucEsC&dq=%22scart+house%22+castle&pg=PA407|accessdate=21 June 2009}}p407</ref>

== Tubrid Mortuary Chapel == The Mortuary Chapel at Tubrid, reportedly built in 1644,<ref>{{cite book|last= O'Reilly|first=Edward |author2=A O'Neil|title=Transactions of the Iberno-Celtic Society for 1820. |publisher= Iberno-Celtic Society |location=Minerva Printing-Office, Chancery-Lane|year=1820|volume=I-Part. I|page=cxciii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZIFAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> in what is now the modern Catholic parish of Ballylooby, is long roofless. The structure shows some evidence of restoration work, notably steel tie-rods securing the gable walls. This work was carried out in 1911-12, due mainly to the efforts of the historian Fr. Patrick Power.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1912|title= Notes and Queries - Dr. Geoffrey Keating Memorial|journal=Journal of the Waterford and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society|volume=XV|pages=158–160, 200|url=http://snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/103790/103790.pdf|accessdate=22 June 2009}}</ref>

It is of particular historical significance as the burial site of many Counter-Reformation ecclesiastics including John Brenan Archbishop of Cashel, Eugene Duhy (O'Duffy) and most notably Geoffrey Keating.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucc.ie/celt/keat_cunn.html|title=Life and Work of Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) |last=Hazard |first=Benjamin |author2=Bernadette Cunningham |date=February 2003| publisher= Corpus of Electronic Texts (UCC) 1997–2009|accessdate=2009-06-22}}</ref>

Over the entrance door to the chapel is a Latin inscription which translates into English as :<ref>Power, P. :[https://books.google.com/books?id=wzwAAAAAMAAJ&q=Waterford+and+Lismore-A+Compendious+History+of+the+United+Dioceses ''Waterford and Lismore-A Compendious History of the United Dioceses'']: Cork University Press, Cork, Ireland: 1937</ref><ref>p14: Cunningham, B.: ''The World of Geoffrey Keating- History, Myth and Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Ireland'' Four Courts Press, Dublin : 2004</ref>

:Pray for the souls of Father Eugenius Duhy, Vicar of Tybrud, :and of Geoffrey Keating, D.D., Founders of this Chapel ; and also :for all others, both Priests and Laics whose bodies lie in the same :chapel. In the year of our Lord 1644.

== St. John's, Tubrid == [[File:Headstone to Valentine Flood, Church of Ireland cemetery, Tubrid, County Tipperary, Ireland.jpg|thumb|150px|alt=A large limestone grave slab with carved inscription|Memorial commissioned by both denominations to Dr. Valentine Flood, who died of Typhus contracted in the Tubrid 'fever sheds' during the Great Famine.]] On the same site is the considerably larger 19th-century Protestant church, also now roofless and in a deteriorating condition. Completed in 1820, it functioned as the place of worship for the local Church of Ireland community until 1919, when it was abandoned.<ref>[http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS&regno=22208128 Saint John's Church, Tipperary South]. ''National Inventory of Architectural Heritage''. Retrieved on 6 August 2009.</ref>

The Catholic community eventually built a new church some 2.5k to the north-west, adjacent to which developed the village of Ballylooby.

== Sites of local interest ==

=== St. Ciaran's Well === According to Power, the parish derives its name from the well (Irish ''Tobraid Chiaráin'') at which St. Declan baptised a local infant named Ciaran, who in time became a noted holy figure.<ref>{{cite book|last=Power|first=Patrick |title=The place-names of Decies |publisher=David Nutt|location=London|year=1907|url=https://archive.org/stream/placenamesofdeci00poweuoft#page/n396/mode/1up}}p345</ref> It was said of Ciarán (Ciaran Mac Eochaidh) that he founded a monastery in the locality and that:<blockquote> He worked many miracles and holy signs and this is the name of his monastery Tiprut [Tubrid] and this is where it is:--in the western part of the Decies in Ui Faithe between Slieve Grot (Galtee) and Sieve Cua and it is within the bishopric of Declan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Life-of-St-Declan-of-Ardmore.html |title=Life of St. Declan of Ardmore |last=Power |first=P. |website=Fullbooks.com |at=par. 37 |accessdate=2009-06-22}}</ref> </blockquote> This holy well near the site, was in previous times a place of pilgrimage. St. Ciaran is remembered in the name of the church at Ballylooby. There was also, until recent times, an annual mass celebrated at this location.

=== Old Protestant Schoolhouse === To the front of the site is the former local schoolhouse which was completed soon after the construction of St. John's and is in danger of falling into a dilapidated condition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS&regno=22208129|title=Tubbrid School, TUBBRID, Tubbrid, TIPPERARY SOUTH - Buildings of Ireland}}</ref>

=== Geoffrey Keating Monument === A commemorative monument was erected to the memory of Geoffrey Keating by the local community in 1990 beside the bridge at nearby Burgess, formerly believed to be his birthplace. Modern scholarship regards Moorstown Castle in the parish of Inishlounaght, Tipperary, as his probable birthplace.<ref>[http://www.nui.ie/eigse/pdf/vol35/eigse35.pdf "A review of some placename material from ''Foras Feasa ar Éireann''"], Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, ''Éigse'', A Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. XXXV, page 81. National University of Ireland, 2005.</ref>

===Roosca Castle=== The remains of Roosca (Ruscoe) castle may still be seen nearby.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Samuel|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland|year=1837|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqzRAAAAMAAJ&dq=Ruscoe+tubrid&pg=PA649|accessdate=22 June 2009}}</ref> Its occupant during the 1641 Rebellion, James Butler, was hanged at Clonmel on 10 May 1653, in retaliation for attacks by his followers on Golden<ref>{{cite book|last=Butler |first=David J. |title=South Tipperary, 1570-1841: religion, land and rivalry |publisher=Four Courts Press |year=2005 |pages=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKdnAAAAMAAJ&q=ruscoe |accessdate=22 June 2009|isbn=978-1-85182-891-3}}</ref> and his household transplanted to Connaught.<ref>{{cite book|last=. Burke|first=William P|title=History of Clonmel |publisher=N. Harvey & co. for Clonmel Library Committee |year=1907 |pages=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=burke+history+of++golden+roosca&btnG=Search+Books}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://books.google.com/books?id=qbwTAAAAQAAJ&dq=Tubrid+keating&pg=PA93 Sketch of the mortuary chapel circa, 1842] from ''Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c.'' by Samuel Carter Hall * [http://www.irelandaerialphotography.com/aerial_photos/005251_roosca_tipperary.html Aerial view of Roosca Castle ruins] from Ireland Aerial Photography.Com * [http://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ths/pdfs/journals/1988/1988%2010%20%5Bpp%20116-120%5D%20Rose%20M.%20Cleary.pdf ''A Mid-Seventeenth Century House at Drumlummin, Tubrid''] : Rose M. Cleary : ''Tipperary Historical Journal'' : 1988. * [http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,603461,618117,7,7 Historic 6" map showing settlement features at Tubrid] from Ordnance Survey Ireland

Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 17th century Category:Former churches in County Tipperary