A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
Pocán· Irish · main form · validated name
Puckaun· English · main form
Place & story
Saint Patrick’s and the grotto
Saint Patrick's Church dates to 1859. Its T-shaped plan, limestone entrance gable, diagonal buttresses and bellcote give it a distinctive outline at the southern end of the village. A stained-glass window comes from the Harry Clarke studio. The village grotto was blessed in 1957 and became a local meeting point, supplementing the church's religious and social role.[2]
The holiday-cottage scheme
Puckane was the first North Tipperary village selected for twelve Rent an Irish Cottage units in the early 1970s. The development encouraged a craft shop north of the village. These holiday cottages belong to a modern tourism initiative and should be distinguished from older vernacular houses, many of which retained timber windows, traditional doors and slate roofs when surveyed in 2007.[2]
People & connections
Shane MacGowan’s childhood connection
The council's village design statement records that songwriter Shane MacGowan spent much of his childhood here and drew on local places in his songs. It establishes a childhood association with the area, rather than a claim that he was born in the village. No song lyrics are needed to recognise that connection between a small Tipperary community and a widely heard musical career.[2]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Puckaun — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Puckaun, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
239people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Puckaun, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Puckaun, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
235people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Puckaun, North Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Puckaun, Tipperary — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Puckaun, North Tipperary
Published census settlement populations
250people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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