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Thurles

Market town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, on the River Suir; population (2002) 6,850. There are turf-workings and coal mines nearby. Thurles produces electrical goods, baby powder, and dental goods, and has food-processing industries. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) was founded here in 1884.

Thurles is on the main Dublin to Cork road and rail routes. The Catholic cathedral was built in 1857 on the site of the Carmelite foundation (established in 1300 by the Butlers of Ormond). The ruins of two keeps erected by the Butlers of Ormond can be seen here.

St Patrick's Diocesan College was established here in 1837 in a Romanesque-style building. Thurles is the cathedral town of the diocese of Cashel and Emly.



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