Thurles

Thurles is a market town in , with a population of 8200 in 2022. In Irish it's Durlas Éile, "strong fort of the Éile", a tribe or small kingdom that reached its zenith in the 5th century AD.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Thurles and Semple Stadium.

Railway station
Photo: Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
railway station serves the town of in in Ireland. The station is on the Dublin–Cork Main line, and is situated 86.5 miles from Dublin Heuston.

Stadium
Photo: DaHuzyBru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
FBD is the home of hurling and Gaelic football for Tipperary GAA and for the province of . Located in Thurles, , it is the second largest GAA stadium in Ireland, with a capacity of 45,690 and named after Tom Semple, the captain of the Thurles "Blues".

Church
Photo: JohnArmagh, Public domain.
The Cathedral of the Assumption is the mother church of the Metropolitan Province of Cashel and the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly in Thurles, in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holycross and Moycarkey.

Village
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Thurles is a market town in , with a population of 8200 in 2022. In Irish it's Durlas Éile, "strong fort of the Éile", a tribe or small kingdom that reached its zenith in the 5th century AD. is situated 6 km southwest of Thurles.

Village
, officially Moycarky, is a village in Moycarky townland in the civil parish of Moycarky in , Ireland. It contains the extensive ruins of Castle. is situated 6 km south of Thurles.

Thurles

Latitude
52.6802° or 52° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
-7.8151° or 7° 48′ 54″ west
Population
8,190
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE THR
Open location code
9C4JM5JM+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52244020
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2961214
Wiki­data ID
Q383188
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Satellite Map

Discover Thurles from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Thurles” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ثورلز”
  • Asturian: “Thurles”
  • Basque: “Thurles”
  • Bulgarian: “Търлес”
  • Catalan: “Thurles”
  • Cebuano: “Thurles”
  • Chinese: “瑟勒斯”
  • Czech: “Thurles”
  • Danish: “Thurles”
  • Dutch: “Thurles”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثورلز”
  • French: “Thurles”
  • Georgian: “თერლესი”
  • Georgian: “თურლსი”
  • German: “Thurles”
  • Greek: “Τέρλας”
  • Hebrew: “ת’ורלס”
  • Indonesian: “Thurles”
  • Irish: “Dúrlas Éile”
  • Irish: “Durlas”
  • Italian: “Thurles”
  • Japanese: “サーリス”
  • Japanese: “サーレス”
  • Korean: “털레스”
  • Latin: “Durlus”
  • Lithuanian: “Terlsas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurles”
  • Norwegian: “Thurles”
  • Polish: “Thurles”
  • Portuguese: “Thurles”
  • Russian: “Терлес”
  • Russian: “Тёрлс”
  • Serbian: “Терлс”
  • Spanish: “Thurles”
  • Swedish: “Thurles”
  • Urdu: “تھرلیس”
  • Welsh: “Thurles”

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