Portroe

Portroe (Irish: An Port Rua, meaning "the red port")[2] is a village in north 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

An Port Rua
Village
View northeast from Portroe
Portroe
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°53′N 8°21′W
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Tipperary
BaronyOwney and Arra
Civil parishCastletownarra
Population
 (2016)[1]
461

Transport
Entering Portroe on the R494 regional road

Bus Éireann route 323 (between Killaloe, County Clare and Nenagh) serves the village and terminates at Nenagh railway station.[3]

Sport

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, is the manager of the Tipperary hurling team as of 2020.

On the outskirts of Portroe is an old flooded quarry, which is used for scuba diving up to depths of 39m.[4]

Notable buildings

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. At the top of the hill is a former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c.1830.[6] There are two housing estates in Portroe, both of which are social housing, and one ghost estate.

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]

People

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.

See also

References
  1. "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Portroe". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. "An Port Rua / Portroe". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. "Timetable - Route 323" (PDF). buseireann.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  4. "Portroe Dive Centre". diveportroe.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014.
  5. "Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Garrykennedy, Tipperary North". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. "Garrykennedy, Tipperary North". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  7. "Lough Derg Way". everytrail.com. 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.
  8. "Portroe (Ireland) Census Town". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
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