Finnoe
{{short description |Civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland}}
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Finnoe (Fionnú in Irish){{cite web|url=http://www.logainm.ie/2177.aspx |title=Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann - Placenames Database of Ireland |publisher=logainm.ie |date= |accessdate=2013-05-22}} is a civil parish in the barony of Ormond Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located close to Borrisokane.
Finnoe is in the Dáil constituency of Laois-Offaly which incorporates 24 electoral divisions that were previously in the Tipperary North Dáil constituency.{{cite web|url=http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs/Constit-Rep-2012-Chap-5.6.pdf|title=Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Waterford - Tipperary - Laois - Offaly - Kildare area|work=Constituency Commission|date=14 July 2012}}
The parish is mentioned in The Pogues song "Broad Majestic Shannon" from their 1988 album "If I Should Fall From Grace With God".
Notable residents, past and present
- Sir Henry Givens Burgess (1859–1937) was an Irish railway executive and politician who lived at Finnoe House.
- Edward Waller (1803–1873) was a land owner, zoologist and barrister who owned Finnoe House.{{Cite web|title=BEMON|url=https://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/index.htm|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.tmbl.gu.se|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903063212/https://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/index.htm|url-status=dead}}
- John Francis Waller (1809–1894) was an Irish poet and editor who lived at Finnoe House.
See also
References
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Category:Civil parishes of Ormond Lower
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