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Kilcolgan

Coordinates:53°12′45″N8°52′21″W / 53.212466°N 8.872433°W /53.212466; -8.872433
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Village in County Galway, Ireland

Village in Connacht, Ireland
Kilcolgan
Cill Cholgáin
Village
Kilcolgan Castle
Kilcolgan Castle
Kilcolgan is located in Ireland
Kilcolgan
Kilcolgan
Location in Ireland
Coordinates:53°12′45″N8°52′21″W / 53.212466°N 8.872433°W /53.212466; -8.872433
CountryIreland
ProvinceConnacht
CountyCounty Galway
Population
 (2016)[1]
141
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceM409203

Kilcolgan (Irish:Cill Cholgáin, meaning 'Colgan's church'),[2] is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay inCounty Galway, Ireland. The settlement is at the junction of theN67 andR458 roads, which lies betweenGort andClarinbridge. The village is near the site of theGalway Bay drowning tragedy. Kilcolgan was designated as acensus town by theCentral Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[3] at which time it had a population of 141 people.[1] The village is in atownland andcivil parish of the same name.[2]

Places of interest

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  • Tyrone House, a ruined manor house[4]
  • Kilcolgan Bridge, late 18th-century stone bridge[5]
  • Kilcolgan Castle, Gothic Revival country house[6]
  • St Sourney (Sairnait)'s church and well, a religious site dating from the 6th Century with an 11th-century gothic carved doorway, a 19th-century mausoleum (celebrated by the British poet SirJohn Betjeman) and adjoining graveyard.[citation needed]
  • Moran's Oyster Cottage, historic restaurant located in a traditional thatched cottage, established in the 1760s.[7]
  • Kiltiernan Church, medieval church and a National Monument[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Kilcolgan (Ireland) Census Town".City Population. Retrieved22 August 2021.
  2. ^ab"Cill Cholgáin/Kilcolgan".Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved5 January 2025.
  3. ^"Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement".CSO. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved26 June 2021.26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Kilcolgan
  4. ^"Tyrone House, Tyrone, Galway".buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved4 April 2022.
  5. ^"Kilcolgan Bridge, County Galway".buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved30 January 2013.
  6. ^"Kilcolgan Castle, County Galway".buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved30 January 2013.
  7. ^Siggins, Lorna (16 February 2016)."The oyster lovers who flocked to Moran's on the Weir, Galway".The Irish Times. Dublin.ISSN 0791-5144. Retrieved16 December 2021.
  8. ^"National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship: Galway"(PDF).National Monuments Service. 4 March 2009. p. 10.Archived(PDF) from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved22 March 2018.
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