Boherlahan (Irish: An Bóthar Leathan)[2] is a small village and census town in County Tipperary, Ireland.[3] It lies on the R660 regional road between Cashel and Holycross. Boherlahan was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[4] at which time it had a population of 299 people.[1]
Boherlahan
An Bóthar Leathan | |
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Village | |
![]() ![]() Boherlahan | |
Coordinates: 52.5722°N 7.8937°W / 52.5722; -7.8937 | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Munster |
County | Tipperary |
Population (2016)[1] | 299 |
Irish grid reference | S072467 |
Charles Bianconi (1786–1875), entrepreneur and developer of coach services in Ireland, lived at Longfield House near Boherlahan,[5] and commissioned an Italianate-style memorial chapel in the village cemetery.[6][7] The local Roman Catholic church, alongside the cemetery, was built in 1964 on the site of an earlier 19th century church.[8]
The national (primary) school in the village, Saint Isidore's National School, had an enrollment of approximately 100 pupils as of 2017.[9]
The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is Boherlahan-Dualla GAA.[10]
26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Boherlahan
[Bianconi] was buried in the family vault of the Mortuary Chapel which he had built at Boherlahan
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