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Country
  
Time zone
  
WET (UTC+0)

Local time
  
Sunday 10:30 AM

County
  
Province
  
Leinster

Tullaroan

Website
  
www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/

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10°C, Wind E at 16 km/h, 61% Humidity

Tullaroan (Irish: Tulach Ruáin, meaning "Rowan's hill") is a village on the west side of County Kilkenny in the Slieveardagh Hills near the Tipperary border. Tullaroan is also the name of the local civil parish.

Contents

Map of Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

Sport

Tullaroan GAA are the most successful Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in County Kilkenny, having won the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship title twenty times in 1887, 1889, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1948, 1958 and 1994. Tullaroan have also been finalists on eleven occasions 1905, 1906, 1913, 1916, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954 and 1992.

Culture

The most common surnames in Tullaroan in 1849-50 were Grace, Maher, Kelly, Walsh, Dunne, Connors, Dowling, Kavanagh, Fogarty and Comerford.

Geography

Civil parishes adjoining Tullaroan parish include Ballingarry (Slieveardagh) in County Tipperary and in County Kilkenny Ballinamara, Ballycallan, Ballylarkin, Killahy (Crannagh), Kilmanagh, Tubbridbritain.

References

Tullaroan Wikipedia


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