Tullaroan
Tullaroan
Tulach Ruáin | |
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Village | |
  Tullaroan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°39′44″N 7°26′18″W / 52.6622°N 7.4384°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Kilkenny |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Tullaroan (Irish: Tulach Ruáin, meaning "Rowan's hill")[1] is a village in the western part of County Kilkenny in the Slieveardagh Hills near the Tipperary border. Tullaroan is also the name of the local civil parish.
Sport[edit]
Tullaroan GAA are the most successful Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Kilkenny, having won the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship title twenty times, and have been finalists on eleven occasions.[citation needed]
Culture[edit]
The most common surnames in Tullaroan in 1849-50 were Grace, Maher, Kelly, Walsh, Dunne, Connors, Dowling, Kavanagh, Fogarty and Comerford.[2]
Geography[edit]
Civil parishes adjoining Tullaroan parish include Ballingarry (Slieveardagh) in County Tipperary and in County Kilkenny Ballinamara, Ballycallan, Ballylarkin, Killahy (Crannagh), Kilmanagh, Tubbridbritain.[2]
Notable people[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tulach Ruáin/Tullaroan". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ a b Tullaroan - Irish Times, Irish Ancestors.
Further reading[edit]
- Healy, Mary (1951). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review. Kilkenny: 11–19.
- O'Doherty, Sean (1967). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review. Kilkenny: 21–25.
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