TOOMAVARA, a village, in the parish of AGHNAMADLE,
barony of UPPER-ORMOND, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 5½| miles (E. by N.) from
Nenagh, on the mail coach road from Dublin to Limerick;
containing 790 inhabitants. This place, of which
the name signifies "the burial-place of the O'Mearas,"
is a constabulary police station; and has fairs on Whit-
Monday, July 27th, Sept. 29th, and Nov. 4th, chiefly
for cattle, corn, and butter. A stream runs through
the village, on which is a good site for a mill. In the
R. C. divisions it is the head of a union or district, comprising
the parishes of Aghnamadle and Ballymackey,
in each of which is a chapel; that in the village is a
neat building. Here are a national school and a dispensary.
Some ruins are supposed to be those of a preceptory
of the Knights Templars; near the village stand
the two ancient castles of Knockane and Blane.