Birdhill
Birdhill
Cnocán an Éin Fhinn | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Birdhill Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°46′00″N 8°26′00″W / 52.766667°N 8.433333°W | |
| Country |  Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Birdhill (Irish: Cnocán an Éin Fhinn, meaning 'little hill of the fair bird')[1] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is in the barony of Owney and Arra[2] and is part of the parish of Newport, Birdhill and Toor in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. Its Irish name was historically anglicised as Knockan or Knockaneeneen.[1]
Location
The village is located at the junction of the R445 (formerly N7), the R466, R504 and the R494 about 20 km from Limerick. The R494 route connects Birdhill to the M7. Public transport is provided by Bus Éireann who provide hourly bus services to Limerick and Dublin from Birdhill. Birdhill railway station is served by two weekday trains each way on the Limerick–Ballybrophy railway line and a skeleton service on the Limerick to Nenagh Commuter Service.
Railway line
Birdhill railway station is on the Limerick–Ballybrophy railway line. A January 2012 national newspaper article suggested that Irish Rail was expected to seek permission from the National Transport Authority to close the line.[3] An enhanced timetable was in force during 2012 however the service was again reduced from February 2013.[4]
Motorway service area
Petrogas opened a service area in October 2014 at junction 27 of the M7 at Birdhill. The Applegreen branded service area contains a Costa Coffee and a Burger King franchise. Traffic uses the existing slip roads with westbound traffic then passing over the motorway bridge.[5]
River Shannon to Dublin pipeline
Plans were announced in 2011 for a pipeline from Lough Derg to supply drinking water to Dublin city and region. In 2016 the Parteen Basin at the south of lough was chosen as the proposed site of extraction. Water would be pumped via Birdhill to a break pressure tank at Knockanacree in County Tipperary and gravity fed from there to Peamount in Dublin.[6]
Awards
Birdhill was named the "Tidiest Village" in the Tidy Towns Awards in 2007, 2008, 2016 and again in 2017. In 2017, the village also took the overall award and was named Ireland's "Tidiest Town".[7]
Sport
Birdhill FC is the local soccer team, which competes in the North Tipperary District League. It currently fields a number of youth teams and one junior team, which competes in the NTDL Division 2.
In February 2019, Birdhill FC won the NTDL Nora Kennedy Cup.
See also
References
- ^ a b Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)
- ^ Owney and Arra - one of 14 baronies in the old county, between Lower Ormond to the north (whose principal town is Cloghjordan) and Upper Ormond to the east(whose principal town is Nenagh).
- ^ http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/iarnrod-eireann-may-close-rail-service-amid-falling-demand-178779.html
- ^ http://www.irishrail.ie
- ^ Nenagh Guardian, 25 Oct 2014, page 28
- ^ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-water-publishes-route-of-shannon-to-dublin-pipeline-1.2858475
- ^ "Revealed: These are Ireland's tidiest towns for 2017". Irish Independent. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
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