Portroe
Portroe
Village in County Tipperary, Ireland
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, 3 km from the eastern shore of Lough Derg and 10 km west of the town of Nenagh. Portroe spans the townlands of Garrykennedy, Glencrue and Shesharoe.
Portroe
Irish: An Port Rua | |
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Village | |
View northeast from Portroe | |
| Coordinates: 52°53′N 8°21′W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Tipperary |
| Barony | Owney and Arra |
| Civil parish | Castletownarra |
| Population | 461 |
| Eircode routing key(s) | E45, V94 |
| Area code | (+353) 067 |
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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.
Organisations in Portroe village include Portroe GAA, the Apostolic Society, the church choir, the local Tidy Towns group, Portroe Youth Club, and the darts club.[citation needed] The village also participate in events like Scor na nOg and Scor na bPaisti.[citation needed]
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.[4] A drama society also exists in Killoran.
Portroe GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club. 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.
The local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St Mary, and was built in 1872.[5] There is also a primary school, a Gaelic Athletic Association club, and a handball alley next to the old primary school in Portroe.[citation needed] At the top of the hill is a former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c.1830.[6] There are three housing estates in Portroe, all of which are social housing, and one ghost estate.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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).[7]
As of the 2016 census, Portroe had a population of 461,[1] up from 411 people as of the 1996 census.[8]
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]
- "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Portroe". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- "An Port Rua / Portroe". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- "Bus Éireann - View Ireland Bus and Coach Timetables" (PDF). www.buseireann.ie. [dead link]
- "Portroe Dive Centre". diveportroe.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
- "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.
- "Garrykennedy, Tipperary North". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- "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.
- "Portroe (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.