Puckane

Puckane, officially Puckaun (Irish: Pocán),[2] is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

[3] The village is located 10 km north of Nenagh along the R493 and close to Lough Derg and Dromineer.

[1] 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".

Ireland's 2015 Eurovision entrant Molly Sterling hails from Puckane.