Thurles
Thurles is a market town in County Tipperary, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thurles and Semple Stadium.
Thurles
Railway station
Photo: Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurles railway station serves the town of Thurles in County Tipperary in Ireland. The station is on the Dublin–Cork Main line, and is situated 86.5 miles from Dublin Heuston.
Semple Stadium
Stadium
Photo: DaHuzyBru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
FBD Semple Stadium is the home of hurling and Gaelic football for Tipperary GAA and for the province of Munster. Located in Thurles, County Tipperary, 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".
Cathedral of the Assumption, Thurles
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, County Tipperary in Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holycross and Moycarkey.
Holycross
Village
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Thurles is a market town in County Tipperary, 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. Holycross is situated 6 km southwest of Thurles.
Moycarkey
Village
Moycarkey, sometimes written Moycarky, is a village at the northern end of Moycarky townland in the civil parish of Moycarky in County Tipperary, Ireland. Moycarkey is situated 6 km south of Thurles.
Thurles
- Type: Town with 8,190 residents
- Description: town in County Tipperary, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Tipperary, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.6802° or 52° 40′ 49″ northLongitude
-7.8151° or 7° 48′ 54″ westPopulation
8,190Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE THROpen location code
9C4JM5JM+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 52244020OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Thurles” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثورلز”
- 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”
- 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”
- Welsh: “Thurles”
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