Tournafulla
| Toornafulla Tuar na Fola | |
|---|---|
| Town | |
  Toornafulla | |
| Coordinates: 52°22′03″N 9°08′50″W / 52.367490°N 9.147300°WCoordinates: 52°22′03″N 9°08′50″W / 52.367490°N 9.147300°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Limerick |
| Limerick County Council LEA | Newcastle |
| Dáil Éireann Constituency | Kerry North West Limerick |
| EU Parliament | South |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R205240 |
Tournafulla, officially Toornafulla[1] (Irish: Tuar na Fola, meaning "animal-enclosure of blood"), is a village in the southwest of County Limerick, Ireland.
Tournafulla is a long single-street village. It has a Catholic church, primary school, three pubs and a GAA pitch. Locally, a claim is made that Tournafulla is the longest village in Ireland and the third longest linear village in Europe, although there is no official record of such. It is the birthplace of the Munster poet Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháín (Timothy O'Sullivan) (1715-1795), author of The Pius Miscellany, and who is buried in Ballylaneen Co. Waterford.
Geography and notable natives of the parish
Tournafulla is near the towns of Abbeyfeale and Newcastle West; south of Templeglantine and west of Kileedy. It is surrounded by hills to the north and the Mullaghareirk Mountains to the south. Woods covered most of Tournafulla until the 17th century.
The three counties of Limerick, Cork and Kerry converge at a point in the parish of Tournafulla/Mountcollins. A plaque has been placed at the River Feale to mark this point. Within a few miles of the parish are the villages of Rockchapel, County Cork, and Brosna, which is the converging point of the three counties.
Among the more famous sporting personalities born in the parish was Tim Doody. He had the unusual distinction of playing in two All Ireland Senior Finals with London, in hurling and football, in the same day in 1901. The hurlers were successful and Tim became the first Tour' man to win an All Ireland senior hurling medal, a record equalled by Seamus Horgan who guarded the Limerick net in the 1973 All Ireland final. Tour' men Sean (Jimmy) O'Sullivan and his brother Michael were famous cross country athletes with Sean winning the Caltex award, prerunner of the current Texaco awards, in 1963. Sean won no less tham 35 Irish titles and would surely have won huge international fame but for the split which existed in Irish Athletics in those years. The parish has also been home to some fine tug of war teams and many prize greyhounds have been bred or trained locally.
Wind turbines
Airtricity installed 18 turbines, 27 MW wind farm in Tournafulla, which was installed in two phases between 2006 and 2008.
Phase one consists of a 5 turbine, 7.5 MW wind farm which will provide power for over 4,500 homes, mitigating around 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
Phase two consists of a further 13 turbines which will provide power for over 10,000 homes, mitigating around 44,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.