# Puckane

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**Puckane**, officially **Puckaun** (),[1] is a village in [County Tipperary](/source/County_Tipperary), [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland). It is also a [parish](/source/Parish) in the [Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Killaloe).[2] The village is located 10 km north of [Nenagh](/source/Nenagh) along the [R493](/source/R493_road) and close to [Lough Derg](/source/Lough_Derg_(Shannon)) and [Dromineer](/source/Dromineer). It had a population of 250 people as of the [2016 census](/source/2016_census_of_Ireland).[3]

## People

The songwriter [Shane MacGowan](/source/Shane_MacGowan) spent much of his childhood in the neighbouring townland of Carney and has immortalised a number of local places in his songs such as "The Broad Majestic Shannon". The village was also mentioned in a well-known [Christy Moore](/source/Christy_Moore) cover of [Shane MacGowan](/source/Shane_MacGowan) and The Pogues song "The Fairy Tale of New York". A local landmark is "Paddy Kennedy's Pub". [Ireland's 2015 Eurovision entrant](/source/Ireland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2015) [Molly Sterling](/source/Molly_Sterling) hails from Puckane.

## Literature

It should not be confused with the [eponymous](/source/Eponymous) fictional village in [Spike Milligan](/source/Spike_Milligan)'s novel *[Puckoon](/source/Puckoon)*.

## Sport

[Kildangan GAA](/source/Kildangan_GAA) is the local [Gaelic Athletic Association](/source/Gaelic_Athletic_Association) club.[4]

## Transport

[Bus Éireann](/source/Bus_%C3%89ireann) route 322 provides a service to and from [Nenagh](/source/Nenagh) on Fridays.[5] Rail services can be accessed at [Nenagh railway station](/source/Nenagh_railway_station).

## See also

- [List of towns and villages in Ireland](/source/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland)

## References

1. ["Placenames Database of Ireland"](http://www.logainm.ie/67244.aspx). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120612020951/http://www.logainm.ie/67244.aspx) 12 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 September 2010.

1. ["Parishes of Killaloe Diocese"](http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parishes). *[Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Killaloe)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100227011331/http://www.killaloediocese.ie/parishes) 2010-02-27 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Puckaun (Ireland) Census Town"](http://citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/tipperary/0786__puckaun/). *City Population*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20201021100730/https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/tipperary/0786__puckaun/) 21 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

1. ["Kildangan Gaelic Athletic Association"](http://kildangan.net/). *kildangan.net*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20020528030641/http://kildangan.net/) 28 May 2002 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Route 322: Lorrha−Terryglass−Coolbawn−Nenagh"](http://buseireann.ie/timetables/1425904706-322.pdf). *[Bus Éireann](/source/Bus_%C3%89ireann)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150911052530/http://www.buseireann.ie/timetables/1425904706-322.pdf) 11 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine.

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