Carrick-on-Suir
| Carrick-on-Suir Carraig na Siúire |
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 Carrick-on-Suir, Main Street, 1996 |
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| Coordinates: | 52 ° 21 ′ N , 7 ° 25 ′ W | |||
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| Province: | Muenster | |||
| County: | Tipperary | |||
| Height: | 6 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Residents: | 5771 (2016) | |||
 Carrick-on-Suir, The Old Bridge (15th century) |
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Carrick-on-Suir ( Irish : Carraig na Siúire; German about: "The rock on the Suir") is a town on the River Suir on the border of three counties in the south (east) of the Republic of Ireland .
The place
The earliest mention of Carrick-on-Suir (originally Carrig Mac Griffin ) dates back to 1247 at the time of the Anglo-Norman occupation. Until the 18th century the place was on an island in the River Suir, before it was connected to the land by the diversion of small river arms. Since the river in the city is subject to the tides and Carrick-on-Suir is less than ten meters above sea level, the city could be hit by the effects of global warming in the near future .
Carrick-on-Suir is mostly in the extreme southeast of County Tipperary , while smaller parts of the city south of the River Suir are also in Counties Waterford and Kilkenny . Their population was determined in the 2016 Census to be 5771 people. Politically , Carrick-on-Suir belongs to the Tipperary South constituency .
Transport links
The city is roughly halfway between Waterford Town and Clonmel on the N24 national road from Waterford Town to Limerick Town .
With Iarnród Éireann , Carrick-on-Suir is connected to rail transport in Ireland via InterCity ; There are three trains daily (as of March 2009) and a large number of bus connections to Waterford Town (27 km south-east).
A river sidewalk leads along an earlier Treidelkanals Clonmel.
Culture
The folk music group Folk Group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, which was very popular in the 1960s, was at home in Carrick-on-Suir.
Personalities
- John Forrest Kelly (1859-1922), American inventor
- The athletes Tom Kiely (1869-1951) and Sean Kelly (* 1956) grew up near Carrick-on-Suir.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
- ↑ Carrick-on-Suir (agglomeration) on citypopulation.de, accessed on May 7, 2019
