Baile an Iúir

Ballinure, known in Irish as Baile an Iúir (homestead of the yew), is a townland in the civil parish of Graystown, barony of Slievardagh, in County Tipperary. The name derives from the Irish word iúr (yew tree), reflecting the botanical landscape of the Slievardagh region in the 15th-16th centuries when the place name likely crystallized. The townland lies on the northern lowlands of Slievarda...