Ballynoran Church

On the north bank of the River Suir, 5 kilometres from Carrick-on-Suir in South Tipperary, lies Ballynoran Church (Irish: Báile an Fhuaráin, meaning Home of the Spring). The hill on which the church stands would have been known as Ard Colm (Height of the Doves), and is alternately referred to as Ardcolme in the Papal Taxations of 1306 and Ardcolum in the Down Survey of 1654. This became anglici...