Kilsheelan

Kilsheelan
Irish: Cill Síoláin
Village
Kilsheelan Bridge, built c.1820[1]
Kilsheelan Bridge, built c.1820[1]
Kilsheelan is located in Ireland
Kilsheelan
Kilsheelan
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°21′41″N 7°34′49″W / 52.361481°N 7.580344°W / 52.361481; -7.580344
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Tipperary
Population
 (2016)[2]
812
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Kilsheelan (Irish: Cill Síoláin) is a village and civil parish within the barony of Iffa and Offa East in County Tipperary, Ireland. A part of the civil parish is in neighbouring County Waterford.[3] It is also one half of the Roman Catholic parish of Kilsheelan & Kilcash in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.

It is situated on the north bank of the River Suir, 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) east of Clonmel and 11.8 km (7.3 mi) west of Carrick-on-Suir, on the N24 and R706 roads. As of 2016, it had a population of 812 people.[2]

Kilsheelan is notable in having won the Tidy Towns competition twice, in both 1975 and 1979.[4] It is represented by the Kilsheelan-Kilcash GAA club.

  1. ^ "About". Kilsheelan Tidy Town. 21 June 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Kilsheelan". CSO. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Dublin City University. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  4. ^ "List of Overall Winners". Tidy Towns. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012.