Kilcolgan

Kilcolgan (Irish: Cill Cholgáin, meaning 'Colgan's church'),^[2] is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland. The settlement is at the junction of the N67 and R458 roads, which lies between Gort and Clarinbridge. The village is near the site of the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. Kilcolgan was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,^[3] at which time it had a population of 141 people.^[1]

Kilcolgan Cill Cholgáin
Village
Kilcolgan Castle
Kilcolgan Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°12′45″N 8°52′21″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Galway
Population  (2016)[1]	141
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	M409203

Places of interest

• 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 Sir John 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

• Galway Bay
• List of abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland § County Galway
• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Kilcolgan (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
2. Kilcolgan profile, Irish Placenames Database; retrieved 18 January 2018.
3. "Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement". CSO. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 26 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. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
5. "Kilcolgan Bridge, County Galway". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
6. "Kilcolgan Castle, County Galway". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 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. Retrieved 16 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. Retrieved 22 March 2018.