St. Patrick's Borstal Institution, Clonmel, was established in Ireland in 1906 as a place of detention for young male offenders aged between 16 and 21, and located in Clonmel, County Tipperary. Clonmel Borstal is situated 210 metres northeast of Main Guard.

Tipperary Museum of Hidden History

Museum

The Tipperary Museum of Hidden History is a local history museum in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is designated as museum by the National Museum of Ireland and has full accreditation in the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland. Tipperary Museum of Hidden History is situated 330 metres northeast of Main Guard.

Old St. Mary’s Church

Church

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Old St. Mary's Church, also known as St. Mary's Church of Ireland Church, is a medieval church in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is believed to have been built in 1204 by William de Burgh, and was referenced in a letter dated August 1228. Old St. Mary’s Church is situated 350 metres west of Main Guard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clonmel and Marlfield.

Clonmel

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Clonmel is the county town of County Tipperary jointly with Nenagh; in 2022 it had a population of 18,000. It stands on the River Suir, which forms the boundary with County Waterford, though the boundary swings south opposite town to include buildings on the other bank within County Tipperary.

Marlfield

Hamlet

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Marlfield is a village three kilometres west of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is within the townlands of Marlfield and Inishlounaght. It replaced an older settlement named Abbey, which had developed near the 12th century Cistercian community of Inislounaght Abbey. Marlfield is situated 3½ km west of Main Guard.

Kilsheelan

Village

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kilsheelan is a village and civil parish within the barony of Iffa and Offa East in County Tipperary, Ireland. A part of the civil parish is in neighbouring County Waterford. Kilsheelan is situated 8 km east of Main Guard.

Main Guard

Categories: building, courthouse, and tourism
Location: County Tipperary, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.35298° or 52° 21′ 11″ north

Longitude

-7.70139° or 7° 42′ 5″ west

Elevation

30 metres (98 feet)

Inception

1674

Operator

Office of Public Works

Open location code

9C4J973X+5C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 829791731

OpenStreetMap feature

building=historic

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

OpenStreetMap attribute

roof-shape=hipped

GeoNames ID

11776810

Wikidata ID

Q38252112

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Chinese: “大本營”

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