Keenagh or Kenagh () is a village in
County Longford
County Longford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Longford. Longford County Council is the Local government in the Republic ...
, Ireland. south of
Longford town
Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It had a population of 10,952 at the 2022 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meeting of I ...
, it is on the
R397 near the
Royal Canal
The Royal Canal () 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 to the Grand Canal. Th ...
.
The village has two churches (Catholic and Church of Ireland), a couple of shops and three pubs. 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 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 (, "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 of housing, combine ...
s. Between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of Keenagh more than doubled from 225 to 581 inhabitants.
See also
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List of towns and villages in Ireland
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Keenagh, Templeport
Keenagh () is a townland in the civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Templeport, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It lies in the Roman Catholic parish of Templeport and barony of Tullyhaw.
Geography
Keenagh is bounded on the no ...
, 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 ...
, County Cavan
References
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Towns and villages in County Longford