Puckane
Puckane
Irish: Pocán | |
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Village | |
.jpg) Looking north on the R493 road at Puckaun | |
  Puckane Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°55′49″N 8°14′18″W / 52.93032°N 8.23828°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Population | 250 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Puckane, officially Puckaun (Irish: Pocán),[2] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.[3] The village is located 10 km north of Nenagh along the R493 and close to Lough Derg and Dromineer. It had a population of 250 people as of the 2016 census.[1]
People
[edit]The songwriter Shane MacGowan spent much of his childhood in the neighbouring townland of Carney and has immortalised a number of local places in his songs such as "The Broad Majestic Shannon". The village was also mentioned in a well-known Christy Moore cover of Shane MacGowan and The Pogues song "The Fairy Tale of New York". A local landmark is "Paddy Kennedy's Pub". Ireland's 2015 Eurovision entrant Molly Sterling hails from Puckane.
Literature
[edit]It should not be confused with the eponymous fictional village in Spike Milligan's novel Puckoon.
Sport
[edit]Kildangan GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.[4]
Transport
[edit]Bus Éireann route 322 provides a service to and from Nenagh on Fridays.[5] Rail services can be accessed at Nenagh railway station.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Puckaun (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ "Parishes of Killaloe Diocese". Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010.
- ^ "Kildangan Gaelic Athletic Association". kildangan.net. Archived from the original on 28 May 2002.
- ^ "Route 322: Lorrha−Terryglass−Coolbawn−Nenagh" (PDF). Bus Éireann. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2015.
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