Tubber ( – shortened form of ''Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh'' meaning "well of the king of Sunday") is a small village located in the south of

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Location

Tubber, County Galway, is the northern part of a loosely defined rural community that is located on the Clare/Galway border. It comes under the

Catholic parish In the Catholic Church, a parish () is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: ''parochus''), under the authority of the diocesan bishop. It is the lowest ecc ...

Gort Gort ( or ) is a town of around 2,800 inhabitants in County Galway in the west of Ireland. Located near the border with County Clare, the town lies between the Burren and the Slieve Aughty and is served by the R458 road (Ireland), R458 and R460 ...

and Beagh in the Diocese of Kilmacduagh, but it is still served by St Michael's Church, Tubber.

Tubber, County Clare Tubber () is a village in the north of County Clare, Ireland. Location The village is part of the barony of Inchiquin, about from Corofin on the road to Gort in County Galway. The village of Tubber in County Clare is the southern part of a l ...

, is a Catholic parish in the Diocese of Killaloe, and is served by St Michael's Church at Tubber Cross. The area as a whole roughly encompasses the

townland A townland (; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion, and mo ...

s with a radius () The Tubber post office is in Galway. There is a holy well of Tobereendoney (''Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh'') from which the community takes its name. Fiddaun Castle, a tower house between Lough Doo and Lough Aslaun built around 1574, is near to the village of Tubber. It is one of the castles that the O'Shaughnessy family owned in the area, the others being Gort Castle, Derryowen, Ballymulfaig, Newtown Castle (west of Gort), and Ardamullivan Castle.

Notable people

* Éamonn Taaffe - intercounty hurler

References

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