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Portroe
Irish: An Port Rua
Village
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Portroe
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°53′N8°21′W / 52.883°N 8.350°W / 52.883; -8.350
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Tipperary
Barony Owney and Arra
Civil parish Castletownarra
Population
 (2016) [1]
461
Eircode routing key(s)
E45, V94
Area code (+353) 067

Portroe (Irish : An Port Rua, meaning 'the red port') [2] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. The village is located on the R494 regional road, 2km from the eastern shore of Lough Derg and 11km west of the town of Nenagh. Portroe spans the townlands of Garrykennedy, Glencrue and Shesharoe.

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Transport

Entering Portroe on the R494 regional road Portroe, County Tipperary (geograph 1799877).jpg
Entering Portroe on the R494 regional road

Bus Éireann route 323 serves the village. It travels to and from Limerick and Nenagh. [3] The bus stop is situated either side of 'Portroe cross' at the bottom of the village near Gleeson's Spar.

Community

A viewing point, to the west of Portroe village, on the R494 Portroelookout30-07-24.img.jpg
A viewing point, to the west of Portroe village, on the R494

Organisations based in the Portroe area include Portroe GAA club, [4] an apostolic society, [5] a church choir, [6] a Tidy Towns committee, [7] a youth club, [8] and the Arra Historical & Archaeological Society [9]

The village also participate in events like Scór, the cultural branch of the GAA. [10] An annual Vintage Day is held locally raising money for various charities [11]

There is a diving club situated on the outskirts of Portroe in an area called Killoran. The club use an old flooded quarry reaching depths of 39m. [12] A drama society also exists in Killoran.[ citation needed ]

Sport

Portroe GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club. [4] A senior hurling team, representing Portroe, won their first ever North Tipperary Senior Hurling title in 2012 in McDonagh Park in Nenagh. Liam Sheedy, who played his club hurling with Portroe and inter-county hurling with Tipperary, was twice the manager of the Tipperary hurling team. Portroe also fields camogie teams. [13]

Built heritage

The local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was built in 1872. [14] There is also a primary school, a Gaelic Athletic Association club, and an old handball alley next to the old primary school in Portroe.[ citation needed ] At the top of the hill is a former Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks, built c.1830. [15]

The community hall hosts a number of events, is used by local clubs, and rented to facilitators hosting classes. The pre-school lies adjacent to the hall also. [16]

On Loughtea Hill, one of the Arra hills south-west of Portroe, a 20 metre high stainless steel cross was erected in 2002. It was raised to mark the millennium and to replace an earlier cross placed there following the Eucharistic Congress of Dublin (1932). [17]

People

As of the 2016 census, Portroe had a population of 461, [1] up from 411 people as of the 1996 census. [18]

Three people from village have participated in the Rose of Tralee festival, with Portroe natives representing the county in the festival in 2008, 2009 and 2012.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Portroe". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "An Port Rua / Portroe". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Bus Éireann - View Ireland Bus and Coach Timetables" (PDF). www.buseireann.ie.[ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 "Tipperary GAA - Clubs - Portroe". tipperary.gaa.ie. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  5. ↑ "Portroe". www.tipperarylive.ie. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Portroe". www.tipperarylive.ie. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  7. ↑ "Portroe Tidy Towns seek new volunteers". Nenagh Guardian. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "Youth Work Ireland – Tipperary". youthworktipperary.ie. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  9. ↑ "Facebook - Arra Historical & Archaeological Society".
  10. ↑ Gaa.ie (19 January 2016). "Scór". www.gaa.ie. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  11. ↑ Hospice, North Tipp (12 August 2022). "Portroe Vintage & Parish Day". North Tipp Hospice. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  12. ↑ "Portroe Dive Centre". diveportroe.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
  13. ↑ "Portroe downed by powerful Moycarkey in Junior B final". Nenagh Guardian. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  14. ↑ "Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Garrykennedy, Tipperary North". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  15. ↑ "Garrykennedy, Tipperary North". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  16. ↑ "Services - Preschool Services, Nenagh | Silver Arch FRC". www.silverarchfrc.ie. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  17. ↑ "Lough Derg Way". everytrail.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2020. A sixty-foot stainless steel cross weighing more than four tonnes was erected (2002) on Cloneybrien Hill near Portroe, to commemorate the millennium and to replace a cross that was placed on the spot to mark the Eucharistic Congress in 1932.
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