Holycross

Holycross
Irish: Mainistir na Croiche
Village
Holycross Bridge and abbey
Holycross
Coordinates: 52°38′23″N 7°52′00″W / 52.639626°N 7.866597°W / 52.639626; -7.866597
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyTipperary
Population
 (2016)
715

Holycross (Irish: Mainistir na Croiche) is a village and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is one of 21 civil parishes in the barony of Eliogarty. The civil parish straddles the baronies of Eliogarty and of Middle Third. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.

The village developed around the Cistercian Holy Cross Abbey on the River Suir. Its population was 715 at the 2016 census.

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