Tulrahan also spelt Tulrohaun, is a village in County Mayo

County Mayo

County Mayo is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county is 130,552...

, Ireland

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. It is located off the R327

R327 road

The R327 road is a regional road in Ireland connecting the N60 east of Claremorris, County Mayo, to the R360 in County Galway. The official description of the R327 from the Roads Act 1993 Order 2006 reads:...

 regional road

Regional road

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 roughly middway between Claremorris

Claremorris

Claremorris , is a town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, at the junction of the N17 and the N60 national routes. The population of Claremoris in the 2011 Census was 3,979....

 and Cloonfad

Cloonfad

Cloonfad is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located at the crossroads of the N83 National secondary road and the R327 regional road.Cloonfad is located around 10 km from the town of Ballyhaunis in Co. Mayo....

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Though very well signposted from all directions (see thumbnails), Tulrahan consists only of two graveyards and a few modern "one-off" type bungalows, well separated in fields along the side of the road; indistinguishable from any other one kilometre stretch of rural road. If one excludes the residents of the graveyards the population cannot number more than a dozen. Home of the Prendergast Family and the famous Ned Prendergast.

Village name

The Irish Placenames Database records varying spellings of the village name in both Irish and English. Such placename spelling variations are common in Ireland. The two Irish versions are Tulach Ruacháin (which appears on road signs at the entrance to the village) and Tulach Shrutháin, the latter being assigned as the official default Irish name by the database. Tulach means hillock or mound, and sruthán means stream, so the latter variant means hill of the stream. A number of anglicised spellings are recorded including Tulrahan, Tulrohaun, Tollrowghan, Tullrohane, and others..

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Tulrahan Cemetery Retrieved 2010-07-09.