LOUGHMORE-WEST, or LOUGHMOE, a parish,
in the barony of ELIOGARTY, county of TIPPERARY, and
province of MUNSTER, 2½ miles (S. by E.) from Templemore,
on the road to Thurles and Clonmel; containing
2878 inhabitants, and, with Loughmore East, comprising
6923 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, and
in the gift of the Archbishop; the rectory is impropriate
in the Marquess of Ormonde. The tithes amount to
£536. 6., of which £296. 6. is payable to the impropriator,
and the remainder to the vicar. There is no
church or glebe-house. In the R. C. divisions it forms
part of the union or district of Loughmore and Castleinny,
which also comprises the parish of Temple-erry,
and contains a chapel in each parish. About 220 children
are educated in three private schools.