Pallasgreen

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Coordinates: 52°34′9.51″N 8°20′18.73″W / 52.5693083, -8.3385361

'Pallasgreen'
An Pailís Ghréine
Location
Location of Pallasgreen
centerMap highlighting Pallasgreen
Irish grid reference
R757440
Statistics
Province: Munster
County: County Limerick
Population (2006)
 - Town:
 - Environs:		  
3,938 
1,977
Nicker Hill, the mythological home of the ancient Irish Goddess of Love, and highest of the local group of volcanic hills that extends into Kilteely-Dromkeen
Nicker Hill, the mythological home of the ancient Irish Goddess of Love, and highest of the local group of volcanic hills that extends into Kilteely-Dromkeen

Pallasgreen or Pallas Grean (Irish: Pailís Ghréine) is a village in East County Limerick, situated on the Limerick–Tipperary N24 road. The name means "the Stockade of Grian," referring to an ancient Irish Goddess of Love, whose is associated with the a nearby hill of Nicker. The area is notable for its many ancient extinct volcanoes, and hexagonal basalt columns, similar to the rock formations at the Giant's Causeway, can be seen on a steep scarp near the Village.[citation needed]

Just a short distance down the road is the related town, Old Pallas, and roughly three miles south of Pallasgreen is Sarsfield's Rock[1], a large rocky outcrop near the church of Templebredon. The Rock looks down on the site where Patrick Sarsfield destroyed the Williamite artillery during the Jacobite-Williamite War. The Rock itself commands fine views of the surrounding hill country.

Pallasgreen Gaelic Athletic Association Club play in the colours of blue and gold, identical to the county colours of Tipperary whose border is just six miles away.

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