Kilcornan () is a

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. It is about seventeen kilometres west of

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city on the N69 road. According to the 2011

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of Ireland the population of the Kilcornan Electoral Division was 749, an increase of 11.6% since 2006. There is a Catholic church and a National School on the main road as well as a public house. Apart from Curraghchase, the ancestral home of the Victorian Poet Aubrey de Vere, the next most visited tourism site in Kilcornan is the Stonehall Visitor Park. There is also a

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track. It is located across the

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from

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History

Lewis's Topographical Dictionary notes that the earliest identifiable settlements in Kilcornan were Danish. The lands changed hands several times during the

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. A large part of the parish was granted to

Hardress Waller Sir Hardress Waller (1666), was an English Protestant who settled in Ireland and fought for Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A leading member of the radical element within the New Model Army, he signed the death warrant for the Exe ...

, one of Cromwell's generals. Curraghchase, the ancestral home of Aubrey de Vere is in Kilcornan. The parish was known as Stonehall until 1961 when under Canon Bluet it changed names to Kilcornan. In 1551 the rector of the parish, William Casey, was nominated by James, the Earl of Desmond to be the first non-Catholic

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. In 1659 the census counted 299 people in the parish, 291 ''Irish'' and 8 ''English''. It is part of the

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of Kenry.

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was built in the 15th century.

People

Ger McDonnell Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, the second- highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He lost his life along with 10 other mountaineers following ...

, mountaineer and engineer, was born in Kilcornan. As the first Irishman to summit K2 in August 2008, he went missing along with 10 others on the descent. In the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering, all were later confirmed dead.

References

External links

Kilcornan Community Website

Civil parishes of County Limerick {{Limerick-geo-stub

History

People

See also

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