Tullaroan

Tullaroan Tulach Ruáin
Village
Tullaroan Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°39′44″N 7°26′18″W / 52.6622°N 7.4384°W / 52.6622; -7.4384Coordinates: 52°39′44″N 7°26′18″W / 52.6622°N 7.4384°W / 52.6622; -7.4384
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') 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[]

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[]

The most common surnames in Tullaroan in 1849-50 were Grace, Maher, Kelly, Walsh, Dunne, Connors, Dowling, Kavanagh, Fogarty and Comerford.^[1]

Geography[]

Civil parishes adjoining Tullaroan parish include Ballingarry (Slieveardagh) in County Tipperary and in County Kilkenny Ballinamara, Ballycallan, Ballylarkin, Killahy (Crannagh), Kilmanagh, Tubbridbritain.^[1]

See also[]

• Tullaroan Church

References[]

Further reading[]

• Healy, Mary (1951). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review. Kilkenny: 11–19.
• O'Doherty, Sean (1967). "Tullaroan". Old Kilkenny Review. Kilkenny: 21–25.

External links[]

• Tullaroan GAA Club