Tournafulla
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Tournafulla
Tuar na Fola ( IST (WEST)) | |
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Tournafulla, or Toornafulla (Irish: Tuar na Fola, meaning 'animal-enclosure of blood'),[2] is a village in the southwest of County Limerick, Ireland. Tournafulla is a long single-street village. It has a Catholic church, a primary school, three pubs, a community hall and a GAA pitch. As of the 2022 census, the village had a population of 204 people.[1]
Geography
Tournafulla is located 11 km from
The three counties of Limerick, Cork and Kerry converge at a point in the parish of Tournafulla/Mountcollins. A plaque has been placed at the River Feale to mark this point. Within a few miles of the parish are the villages of Rockchapel, County Cork, and Brosna, which is the converging point of the three counties.
Townlands
There are twenty townlands in the Tournafulla/Mountcollins parish:
- Acres
- Ballycommane
- Caherlevoy
- Clenglass North
- Clenglass South
- Glengort North
- Glengort South
- Glenmore East
- Glenmore West
- Gortnaskehy
- Killaculleen
- Knockcoolkeare
- Knocknadiha
- Mauricetown
- Mountcollins
- Reanagillee
- Seeconglass
- Tooreennagreana
- Tournafulla Lower
- Tournafulla Upper
Community centre
Halla Tadhg Gaelach, the local community centre was officially opened in 2001. Partly funded by the people of Turnafulla to the amount of £200,000,[4] it was dedicated to the local poet Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin. The hall hosts music classes, indoor bowls, meetings and cards while on a monthly basis, there is a ceili.[citation needed]
Sport and culture
The local hurling club is Tournafulla GAA. The club was founded in 1900 and a year later club man Tim Doody won an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship with London. Séamus Horgan was the goalkeeper on the Limerick team that won the 1973 All-Ireland, Limerick's last, until 2018. The club won many West Senior Hurling titles and built up a close rivalry with neighbours Killeedy. Tour reached the County Senior Hurling Championship final in 1979, but lost to Patrickswell. The club currently compete at Junior A level and footballers from the area play with Mountcollins who are currently Intermediate.
Tournafulla is located in the Sliabh Luachra area of Irish traditional music around the Cork, Limerick and Kerry borders. The local Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann branch is called CCÉ Tuar na Fola and they compete in County, Munster and All-Ireland Fleadhanna along with Scór and wrenboys. Céilithe are held every few weeks in Halla Tadhg Gaelach in Tournafulla.
Wind turbines
Notable people
- Brigid of Munster. An old legend was that she once cursed the people of Tournafulla when she was taking her donkeys to the monastery farm at Seeconglass near Mountcollins. The people of Tournafulla set their dogs on her donkeys who ran away. Upon catching up with her donkeys, she discovered that one of the donkeys was lame from a thorn stuck in its foot. St. Ita removed it and planted it near her convent where it grew into a thorn bush. It is alleged that her footprint, and that of her donkey, were left near where the Allaghaun and Skule rivers meet in Upper Tournafulla and those with ailments could be cured once they placed their feet in the footprints.[citation needed]
- Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (c. 1715 – 1795), 18th century composer of both Christian poetry and Irish bardic poetry in Munster Irish.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Toornafulla". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. April 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Tuar na Fola/Toornafulla". logainm.ie. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Tournafulla-Mountcollins Parish". LimerickDioceseHeritage.org. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Tournafulla co-operating for a brighter future". LimerickLeader.ie. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
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