Tullaroan


Tullaroan is a village in the westen 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 in 1887, 1889, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1948, 1958 and 1994. Tullaroan have also been finalists on eleven occasions 1905, 1906, 1913, 1916, 1936, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954 and 1992.

Culture

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

Geography

Civil parishes adjoining Tullaroan parish include Ballingarry in County Tipperary and in County Kilkenny Ballinamara, Ballycallan, Ballylarkin, Killahy, Kilmanagh, Tubbridbritain.