Thurles, a town in county Tipperary, Ireland, situated on the river Suir, 87 miles SW. of Dublin by rail. Four miles distant is the beautiful 14th-century ruin of Holy Cross Abbey. Thurles has a (classical) Roman Catholic cathedral, built at a cost of £45,000, the seat of the archbishopric of Cashel. Pop. 4850.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 194
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