Bruff

Bruff ( Bru na nDeise , Fort of the Deise ) is a town with a population of approximately 800 located in County Limerick, Ireland.

Latitude and Longitude :52"28.674' , 8"32.866'
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This page is designed to make information chosen by the Author available on the web.
Last update - January 22nd 2012
Aim is to update the page once a month.
Comments, submissions and corrections all welcome at the above contact.

This site was formerly located at http://www.geocites.com/bruffsite but was fored to move as geocites was closing.
The new site is called http://www.deise.org since Bruff in Irish is Fort of the Deise

News

Christmas in Bruff featured nice mild weather compared to the last two years. No frost, one morning of snow, no ice but fairly wet. The Christmas lights and the crib both looked nice.

snow dec 2011

One morning of snow.

Protestant church spire

Renovations on the steeple of the protestant church.

Waterfall dec 2011

Waterfall in Bruff Christmas 2011.

Questions

Does anybody know why their are two bridges in Bruff < 100 meters apart?
In fact the recent local area development plan calls for a 3rd bridge approx
another 500 meters upstream.

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Far up bridge

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Getting to Bruff

Located 15 miles South of Limerick City in Ireland

Latitude and Longitude :52"28.674' , 8"32.866'

Dublin airport - 3 hours on a good day
Shannon airport - 1 to 1.5 hours

There is a very useful route planner available here which offers good directions to Bruff.

Map showing location of Bruff

GPS = the Garmin Nuvi 600 has excellent maps of the Bruff area including all townloand names.

Interesting links

Another Bruff web page
Bruff Page on Limerick Diocese Web page
movetoireland.com

http://www.bruffpictures.blogspot.com/
http://www.bruffsummerfestival.blogspot.com/
http://bitsfrombruff.blogspot.com/
http://bruffhistory.blogspot.com/

Some of the links below are under development and not yet active.

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