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Puckane, officially Puckaun, is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. The village is located 10 km north of Nenagh along the R493 and close to Lough Derg and Dromineer. It had a population of 250 people as of the 2016 census.

People
The songwriter Shane MacGowan spent much of his childhood in the neighbouring townland of Carney and has immortalised a number of local places in his songs such as "The Broad Majestic Shannon". The village was also mentioned in a well-known Christy Moore cover of Shane MacGowan and The Pogues song "The Fairy Tale of New York". A local landmark is "Paddy Kennedy's Pub". Ireland's 2015 Eurovision entrant Molly Sterling hails from Puckane. ==Literature==
Literature
It should not be confused with the eponymous fictional village in Spike Milligan's novel Puckoon. ==Sport==
Sport
Kildangan GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club. ==Transport==
Transport
Bus Éireann route 322 provides a service to and from Nenagh on Fridays. Rail services can be accessed at Nenagh railway station. ==See also==
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