Kilmoganny (officially Kilmaganny;
) is a small village in the
County Kilkenny in the south-east of Ireland. Saint Mogeanna was an Irish virgin whose feast day in the Irish Calendar of Saints is 29 January.
It is home to a primary school, post office, a pub, 2 churches, a GAA field and a local shop called Morans or locally known as Pete’s. The village is at the junction of the
R697 and
R701 roads.
Kilmoganny is in the
Diocese of Ossory
The Bishop of Ossory () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the ancient of Kingdom of Ossory in the Province of Leinster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been ...
, in the
civil parish
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of Kilmaganny.
St. Eoghan's Catholic church is in the parish of
Dunnamaggin
Dunnamaggin (officially Dunnamaggan; ) is a small village in the south County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the R699 road between Callan and Knocktopher, east of its intersection with the R697 between Kells and Kilmoganny. Dunnamaggan gives its name ...
. St. Matthew's
Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the secon ...
church is in
Kells parish.
As of the 2016 census, Kilmoganny had a population of 245.
References
Towns and villages in County Kilkenny
Census towns in County Kilkenny
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