Thurles, Ireland
Ireland
Thurles, Ireland shares 104 connections with 2172 other places across 17 topics, led by sports, music, education, and history. The stadium in the town is the spiritual home of Munster hurling, and Thurles Racecourse stages both National Hunt and flat racing. A third-level college campus was established in 1998. Its strongest co-connection overlaps run to Dublin, London, and County Tipperary.
Mary Immaculate College
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Limerick, Ireland | Moneygall, Ireland
Eóganacht Chaisil
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: County Kilkenny | Templemore, Ireland
Croghan Hill
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: County Offaly | Croghan, Ireland
Martin Hayes (bishop)
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Rome, Italy | Navan
Slieveardagh Hills
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: County Kilkenny | Ballingarry, Ireland
Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: County Limerick | Killeedy
Limerick Institute of Technology
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Limerick, Ireland | Clonmel, Ireland | Moneygall, Ireland
National Hunt
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Moone, Ireland | Gowran, Ireland | Kilbeggan, Ireland
Bosco (TV series)
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Dublin, Ireland | Monaghan, Ireland
Pat Shortt
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: London, England | Limerick, Ireland | County Tipperary | Moone, Ireland
Máiréad Nesbitt
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: London, England | Waterford, Ireland | County Tipperary
Bishop of Cloyne
Connects Thurles, Ireland to: Jordan | County Cork | Slane, Ireland | Cloyne, Ireland
Featured in the Bunkagame quiz
- October 10, 2026 The 19th-century Irish novelist Julia Kavanagh (1824 to 1877), subject of Eileen Fauset's 2009 Manchester University Press book 'The Politics of Writing', was born in a small town in County Tipperary, in the province of Munster. In which Irish town was she born?
- September 28, 2026 Which fast Irish stick-and-ball sport had its modern rules set out at the founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Hayes Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1884, and is played across Ireland, including Ulster, and in the diaspora as far as the Scottish Highlands?
- September 16, 2026 The Essex seaside town of Southend-on-Sea hosted this act at Mr. B's in the 1980s, and the Irish town of Thurles later welcomed them to the 'Trip to Tipp' festival alongside Blur, The Cranberries and Rage Against the Machine. Which British electronic act, famous for 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe', connects the two towns?