Boherlahan () is a small village and

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County Tipperary County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after th ...

, Ireland. It lies on the R660 regional road between Cashel and

Holycross Holycross () is a village and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is one of 21 civil parishes in the barony of Eliogarty. The civil parish straddles two counties and the baronies of Eliogarty and of Middle Third (South Tipperary). It is ...

. Boherlahan was designated as a

by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 299 people.

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(1786–1875), entrepreneur and developer of coach services in Ireland, lived at Longfield House near Boherlahan, and commissioned an Italianate-style memorial chapel in the village cemetery. The local

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church, alongside the cemetery, was built in 1964 on the site of an earlier 19th century church. The national (primary) school in the village, Saint Isidore's National School, had an enrollment of approximately 100 pupils as of 2017. The local

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club is

Boherlahan–Dualla GAA Boherlahan–Dualla GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club associated with the villages of Boherlahan and Dualla in County Tipperary, Ireland. The parish of Boherlahan–Dualla is a large parish in Tipperary, and Boherlahan-Dualla GAA clu ...

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{{Tipperary-geo-stub Towns and villages in County Tipperary