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Keenagh or Kenagh () is a village in
County Longford County Longford ( gle, Contae an Longfoirt) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Longford. Longford County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county was 46,6 ...
, Ireland. It is situated on the R397 near the
Royal Canal The Royal Canal ( ga, An Chanáil Ríoga) is a canal originally built for freight and passenger transportation from Dublin to Longford in Ireland. It is one of two canals from Dublin to the River Shannon and was built in direct competition ...
. A small village with two churches, (Catholic and Church of Ireland), a couple of shops and three pubs, it lies south of
Longford Town Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 10,008 according to the 2016 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meet ...
. There are also GAA and soccer clubs in the village, as well as a community centre. Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway near the village. The
Newcomen Baronets The Newcomen Baronetcy, of Kenagh in the County of Longford, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 30 December 1623 for Robert Newcomen. Born in London, the third son of Charles Newcomen and Jane Nightingale, Robert had come ...
were the local landowners for several generations. In the period 2000 to 2007 many new houses were built around Keenagh, due to the tax incentives available in the area and without direct consideration to demand. As of 2010, many were vacant or incomplete constituting
ghost estate A ghost estate ( ga, Eastát na Sí, "Fairy estate") is an unoccupied housing estate, particularly one built in the Republic of Ireland during the period of economic growth when the Irish economy was known as the Celtic Tiger. A massive surplus ...
s. Between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of Keenagh more than doubled from 225 to 581 inhabitants.


See also

* List of towns and villages in Ireland *
Keenagh, Templeport Keenagh () is a townland in the civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw. Geography Keenagh is bounded on the north by Kilsallagh and Munlough North townla ...
, a townland in the parish of
Templeport Templeport () is a civil parish in the barony of Tullyhaw, County Cavan, Ireland. The chief towns in the parish are Bawnboy and Ballymagauran. The large Roman Catholic parish of Templeport containing 42,172 statute acres was split up in the 18t ...
, County Cavan


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{{County Longford Towns and villages in County Longford