Portroe () is a village in

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 t ...

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. The village is located on the R494 regional road, 3 km from the eastern shore of Lough Derg and 10 km west of the town of Nenagh. Portroe spans the

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s of Garrykennedy, Glencrue and Shesharoe.

Transport

Portroe, County Tipperary (geograph 1799877)

Bus Éireann route 323 serves the village. It travels to and from

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and

Nenagh Nenagh (, ; or simply ''An tAonach'') meaning “The Fair of Ormond” or simply "The Fair", is the county town and second largest town in County Tipperary in Ireland. Nenagh used to be a market town, and the site of the East Munster Ormond ...

Sport

Portroe GAA Portroe GAA is a Tipperary GAA club which is located in County Tipperary, Ireland. Both hurling and Gaelic football are played in the "North-Tipperary" divisional competitions. The club is centred on the village of Portroe which is eight mile ...

is the local

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club. A senior hurling team, representing Portroe, won their first ever North Tipperary Senior Hurling title in 2012 in McDonagh Park in Nenagh.

Liam Sheedy Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William. Etymology The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: ''willa'' ("will" or "resolution"); and ''helma'' ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these elem ...

, who played his club hurling with Portroe and inter-county hurling with Tipperary, was twice the manager of the Tipperary hurling team. On the outskirts of Portroe is an old flooded quarry, which is used for scuba diving up to depths of 39m.

Notable buildings

The local

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church is dedicated to St Mary, and was built in 1872. There is also a primary school, a

club, and a handball alley next to the old primary school in Portroe. At the top of the hill is a former

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barracks, built c.1830. There are two housing estates in Portroe, both of which are social housing, and one

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. On Loughtea Hill, one of the

Arra hills The Arra Mountains or Arra Hills (Irish: ''Sliabh an Ara'') are situated in County Tipperary in Ireland, between the towns of Nenagh and Ballina, south east of Lough Derg (Shannon) and north of the M7 Motorway. The highest summit is Tountinna (' ...

south-west of Portroe, a 20 metre high stainless steel cross was erected in 2002. It was raised to mark the

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and to replace an earlier cross placed there following the

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People

As of the 2016 census, Portroe had a population of 461, up from 411 people as of the 1996 census. Three people from village have participated in the Rose of Tralee festival, with Portroe natives representing the county in the festival in 2008, 2009 and 2012.

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