Puckane

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|name = Puckane

|native_name = {{Irish place name|Pocán}}

|native_name_lang = ga

|settlement_type = Village

|image_skyline = File:The R493 road, looking north, Puckaun, Co. Tipperary (geograph 3495926).jpg

|image_caption = Looking north on the R493 road at Puckaun

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|subdivision_name = Ireland

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|subdivision_name1 = Munster

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|subdivision_name3 = County Tipperary

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Puckane, officially Puckaun ({{irish place name|Pocán}}),{{Cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/67244.aspx |title=Placenames Database of Ireland |access-date=16 September 2010 |archive-date=12 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612020951/http://www.logainm.ie/67244.aspx |url-status=live }} is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.{{cite web |url=http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parishes |title=Parishes of Killaloe Diocese |website=Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227011331/http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parishes |archive-date=2010-02-27 }} 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.

People

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

It should not be confused with the eponymous fictional village in Spike Milligan's novel Puckoon.

Sport

Kildangan GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.{{cite web|url = http://kildangan.net/ | website = kildangan.net | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20020528030641/http://kildangan.net/ | archivedate = 28 May 2002 | title = Kildangan Gaelic Athletic Association}}

Transport

Bus Éireann route 322 provides a service to and from Nenagh on Fridays.{{cite web |url=http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1425904706-322.pdf |title=Route 322: Lorrha−Terryglass−Coolbawn−Nenagh |date= |website=Bus Éireann |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911052530/http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1425904706-322.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2015}} Rail services can be accessed at Nenagh railway station.

References

Category:Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe

Category:Towns and villages in County Tipperary