Tullaroan


Tullaroan 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

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.

Culture

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

Geography

The village is 13 km west of Kilkenny city.
Civil parishes adjoining Tullaroan parish include Ballingarry in County Tipperary and in County Kilkenny Ballinamara, Ballycallan, Ballylarkin, Killahy, Kilmanagh, Tubbridbritain.

Notable people