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Galmoy, County Kilkenny
Galmoy () is a village in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Barony of Galmoy, Galmoy, County Kilkenny in the southeastern part of the midlands of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the County Kilkenny, Kilkenny–County Laois, Laois border, between the villages of Cullohill and Johnstown, County Kilkenny, Johnstown. It is 9 km from both Urlingford and Rathdowney, 28 km from Thurles, 30 km from Kilkenny and 40 km from Portlaoise. The town lends its name to Galmoy Mine, a zinc and lead mine. In 2002, the village had 283 residents. Buildings Eirke Church was built in 1823. It also has a house and an acre of land. Grangefertagh Round Tower is located on the Johnstown-Galmoy border. Rivers A minor tributary of the River Nore, the River Goul flows through the parish of Galmoy in multiple places. The river flows through Urlingford, Johnstown, Galmoy and Cullohill before joining the River Erkina near Durrow, County Laois, Durrow. The River Goul flows through the three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Ireland
Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. Its capital city, capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island, with a population of over 1.5 million. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a Unitary state, unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the , consists of a lower house, ; an upper house, ; and an elected President of Ireland, president () who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the (prime minister, ), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathdowney
Rathdowney or Rathdowny () is a small town in southwest County Laois, Ireland. It lies some 32 km southwest of Portlaoise in the Irish Midlands, at the point where the R433 regional road from Abbeyleix to Templemore is crossed by the R435 from Borris-in-Ossory to Johnstown. The R433 provides access for Rathdowney to the Dublin-Cork M8 motorway, while the R435 links the town to the Dublin-Limerick M7. As of the 2016 census, the population of Rathdowney was 1,271. The town is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. History Rathdowney is named after a nearby ringfort, or ''ráth'', which was levelled in 1830. This ráth is mentioned three times in the Annals of the Four Masters: * 874 Flaithri, son of Máel Dúin, Lord of Rath-Tamhnaighe (Rathdowney) died * 909 Maelpadraig, son of Flaithri, Lord of Rath-Tamhnaighe, died * 1069 Gillamoula, grandson of Bruaideadh, Lord of Rath-Tamhnaighe The settlement of Rathdowney has existed since at least the 9th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilkenny Junior A Hurling Championship
The Kilkenny Junior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the JJ Kavanagh & Sons Junior A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kilkenny JAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by junior-ranked clubs in the county of Kilkenny in Ireland. It is the fourth tier overall in the entire Kilkenny hurling championship system. In its current format, the Kilkenny Junior Championship is played across the summer months. The 10 participating teams engage in a double elimination tournament that culminates with the final and the awarding of the Bob Aylward Cup. Young Irelands are the current champions, after beating Dunnamaggin in the 2024 final. Format Overview Round 1: The 10 participating teams are drawn against each other in random pairings. Five matches are played with the five winning teams advancing to the quarter-finals. Four of the losing teams progress to round 2. One o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurling
Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much glossary of Gaelic games terms, terminology. The same game played by women is called camogie ('), which shares a common Gaelic root. The objective of the game is for players to use an Fraxinus excelsior, ash wood stick called a hurl or Hurley (stick), hurley (in Irish a ', pronounced or in English) to hit a small ball called a ' (pronounced in English) between the opponent's goalposts either over the crossbar for one point or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a gaelic football and Hurling positions#Goalkeeper, goalkeeper for three points. The ' can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked, or slapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galmoy GAA
Galmoy GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Galmoy, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is located on the Laois-Kilkenny border, and neighbours the village of Cullohill in County Laois. The club is primarily concerned with the game of hurling, but also produces very successful handball players. History Located in the village of Galmoy, on the Laois-Kilkenny border, Galmoy GAA Club was founded in December 1929. The club has spent most of its existence operating in the junior grade, winning three Kilkenny JHC titles and 13 divisional titles. A brief period in the Kilkenny SHC saw the club lose to James Stephens in the 1975 final. Galmoy defeated Oran to become the first Kilkenny winners of the All-Ireland Junior Club Championship in 2005. Due to low numbers in 2006, Galmoy's underage teams amalgamated with Windgap and won the 'B' League that year. They are currently still amalgamated at U14, U16, Minor and U21 Level and continue to do well winning multiple league and cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Tipperary
County Tipperary () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary (town), Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with eight counties, more than any other. The population of the county was 167,895 at the 2022 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county. In 1838, County Tipperary was divided into two Riding (division), ridings, North Tipperary, North and South Tipperary, South. From 1899 until 2014, they had their own county councils. They were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which came into effect following the 2014 Irish local elections, 2014 loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durrow, County Laois
Durrow (, formerly ''Darmhagh Ua nDuach'') is a village located in south-east County Laois, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Bypassed by the M8 motorway (Ireland), M8 motorway on 28 May 2010, the village is located on the R639 road at its junction with the N77 road (Ireland), N77. The River Erkina flows through Durrow and joins the River Nore about 1.5 km east of the village. The village takes its name from the Irish ''Darmhagh Ua nDuach'' (meaning 'the oak plain [in the territory] of Ui Duach'). It is in a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of the same name. History The earliest recorded church in the village was in 1155. Evidence from the Archaeological Survey carried out by the Office of Public Works in 1995 suggests that this area has been visited, if not inhabited, since as early as the Bronze Age Ireland, Bronze Age. An urn-burial found on the lands of Moyne Estate dates roughly to the same period as those found at iron mills and Ballymartin (900–1400BC). Fulacht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Erkina
The River Erkina () is a river that flows through the county of Laois in Ireland. It is a tributary of the River Nore. It has its source on the Laois-Kilkenny border south of Rathdowney. It flows north towards Rathdowney and then turns east in the direction of Durrow entering the River Nore around 1.5 km east of the town. See also Rivers of Ireland Shown here are all the major rivers and tributaries of Ireland with their lengths (in kilometres and miles). Starting with the Northern Ireland rivers, and going in a clockwise direction, the rivers (and tributaries) are listed in regard to their ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Erkina Rivers of County Laois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Goul
The River Goul (; ) is a river that flows through the counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois in Ireland. It is a tributary of the River Erkina which is in turn a tributary of the River Nore. It has its source in the Slieveardagh Hills, approximately six kilometres south of Urlingford. It enters the town from the southeast, passing under Main Street and making its way to the bridge at Urlingford Castle (and Mill). It flows north passing between Johnstown and Galmoy into County Laois before joining the River Erkina several kilometres west of Durrow. See also * Rivers of Ireland Shown here are all the major rivers and tributaries of Ireland with their lengths (in kilometres and miles). Starting with the Northern Ireland rivers, and going in a clockwise direction, the rivers (and tributaries) are listed in regard to their ... References Footnotes Sources * * Further reading * External links * {{coord, 52, 51, N, 7, 27, W, display=title, region:IE_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Nore
The River Nore ( ) is one of the principal rivers (along with the River Suir and River Barrow) in the South-East Region, Ireland, South-East Region of Ireland. The river drainage basin, drains approximately of Leinster and Munster, that encompasses parts of three counties (Tipperary, Laois, Kilkenny). Along with the River Suir and River Barrow, it is one of the constituent rivers of the group known as the The Three Sisters (Ireland), Three Sisters. Starting in the Devil's Bit Mountain, County Tipperary, the river flows generally southeast, and then south, before its confluence with the River Barrow at Ringwood, and the Barrow Bridge, Barrow railway bridge at Drumdowney, County Kilkenny, which empties into the Celtic Sea at Waterford Harbour, Waterford. The long term average flow rate of the River Nore is 42.9 cubic metres per second (m3/s) The river is home to the only known extant population of the critically endangered species, critically endangered Nore freshwater pearl mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Examiner
The ''Irish Examiner'', formerly ''The Cork Examiner'' and then ''The Examiner'', is an Republic of Ireland, Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork (city), Cork, though it is available throughout the country. History 19th and early 20th centuries The paper was founded by John Maguire (MP), John Francis Maguire under the title ''The Cork Examiner'' in 1841 in support of the Catholic Emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell. Historical copies of ''The Cork Examiner'', dating back to 1841, are available to search and view in digitised form at the Irish Newspaper Archives website and British Newspaper Archive. During the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' (along with other nationalist newspapers) was subject to censorship and suppression. At the time of the Spanish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' reportedly took a strongly pro-Francisco Franco, Franco tone in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galmoy Mine
Galmoy Mine is an abandoned zinc and lead mine northwest of Kilkenny, Ireland. Located in the Rathdowney Trend, Galmoy was an underground mine that operated from 1997 to 2012, initially by Arcon International Resources, then by Lundin Mining from 2005. The Rathdowney Trend stretches , between the towns of Abbeyleix and Thurles. The region is a broad plain drained by the Rossetown and Drish Rivers, tributaries of the River Suir, which flows into the sea at Waterford. Exploration of the Rathdowney Trend during the late 1960s and early 1970s identified sporadic occurrences of lead and zinc, although the first significant mineralisation was not discovered until 1984. Lisheen Mine is also in the Rathdowney Trend. Galmoy was exclusively an underground operation. Initially the mine used Room and pillar mining, room and pillar methods exclusively, but subsequent modifications introduced both Bench (geology), benching and Underground hard-rock mining#Selective mining methods, drift and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
