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An Tóchar

Togher
Causeway
An Tóchar derives from the Irish word tóchar, meaning a causeway or raised path over boggy ground—a practical descriptor of the terrain and its role as a passable route through otherwise marshy landscape. Togher originated as a rural agricultural settlement within the parish of St. Finbarr's South, with land dominated by Anglo-Irish ascendancy estates, particularly holdings of the Sarsfield fam...

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