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Tullamore (/ ˈ t ʊ l ə ˌ m ɔːr /; Irish: Tulach Mhór, meaning 'great mound') is the county town of County Offaly in Ireland. It is on the Grand Canal , in the middle of the county, and is the fourth most populous town in the Midlands Region , with 15,598 inhabitants at the 2022 census .
Tullamore Urban District council, established under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, in 1899, [7] was based in an office in Tullamore Courthouse until 1974, when it relocated to a building in O'Connor Square which it shared with the County Library and the County Motor Tax Office. After finding this arrangement unsatisfactory, the urban ...
Mucklagh (Irish: An Muclach) [2] is a townland and village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is located 5 km southwest of Tullamore. [3] As of the 2016 census, the population of Mucklagh was 826 people. [1]
The building, which was designed by John B. Keane in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1833. [1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Cormac Street; there was a flight of steps leading up to a large hexastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature and a modillioned pediment.
Offaly County Council was established on 1 April 1899 under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 for the administrative county of County Offaly (then titled King's County). [1] [2] [3] Originally Tullamore Courthouse had been the meeting place of Offaly County Council. [4] [5] The county council moved to modern facilities at Áras an Chontae ...
Blue Ball, historically known as Pallas (Irish: An Phailís), [1] [2] is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. It is 9 km southwest of Tullamore, at the junction of the N52 and the R357 roads, in the civil parish of Killoughy. [1] Pallas Lough, also in the civil parish of Killoughy, [3] is a small fishing lake located to the east of the ...
The funeral of murdered teacher Ashling Murphy is under way in Co Offaly. The body of the 23-year-old, a talented musician and teacher, was found on the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore ...
The Irish property bubble was the speculative excess element of a long-term price increase of real estate in the Republic of Ireland from the early 2000s to 2007, a period known as the later part of the Celtic Tiger.