Tullaroan

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Tullaroan
Irish: Tulach Ruáin
County Kilkenny
Location
Grid reference: S380569
Location: 52°39’44"N, 7°26’18"W
Data
Local Government
Council: Castlecomer
Dáil
constituency:
Carlow–Kilkenny

Tullaroan is a village in the western part of County Kilkenny in the Slieveardagh Hills near the Tipperary border. The name of the village is from the Irish Tulach Ruáin, meaning 'Rowan's hill'.[1]

Sport

  • Gaelic sports: Tullaroan GAA

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Tullaroan)

References

  1. Tulach Ruáin / Tullaroan: Placenames Database of Ireland
  • Healy, Mary (1951). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 11–19. 
  • O'Doherty, Sean (1967). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny): 21–25.