Puckane, officially Puckaun (Irish: Pocán),[2] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.[3] 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.[1]

Puckane Pocán
Village
Looking north on the R493 road at Puckaun
Puckane Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°55′49″N 8°14′18″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Tipperary
Population  (2016)[1]	250
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

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.[4]

Transport

Bus Éireann route 322 provides a service to and from Nenagh on Fridays.[5] Rail services can be accessed at Nenagh railway station.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

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