Killea () is a village in
County Tipperary
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,
Ireland
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. The village lies off the
N62 road, 5 km from
Templemore
Templemore () is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in the historical Barony (Ireland), barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the Ecclesiastical parish, parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea i ...
. It is one of eleven
civil parishes
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in the historical
barony Barony may refer to:
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* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
of
Ikerrin
Ikerrin ( Irish: ''Uí Chairín'') is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Roscrea. The barony lies between Eliogarty to the south (whose chief town is ...
. It is also part of the
ecclesiastical parish
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of
Templemore, Clonmore and Killea
Templemore, Clonmore and Killea is an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The parish includes the town of Templemore and the nearby villages of Clonmore and Killea in County Tipperary.
Churches of the p ...
in the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
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. The local
Gaelic Athletic Association
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club is ''Cill Aodha''.
Education
Killea National School is a co-educational primary school, founded in 1895. Originally housed in a three-roomed building, the school was later transferred to a new building. As of January 2009, the school serves 32 pupils.
Village church
Killea (Cill Aodh – literally the church founded by Aodh) gets its name from the 5th-century church established by Aodh, a disciple of Saint Declan of Ardmore, but the ruined church now visible is of medieval origin.
There has been a
Catholic
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church in the village since at least the 13th century, as noted in the Papal taxation list of parishes of 1302-1306, and in a later list from 1437. Remnants of the original chapel can be seen in the village's old church cemetery. In 1832, the current church ''St. James' Church of Killea'' was built, with the foundation stone laid by Reverend Patrick Fant, parish priest of Templemore. Reverend William Heffernan was chosen to oversee construction of the church. At the time,
Saint James was particularly popular in the area and had a dedicated
well
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in nearby Kilkip to which sick people travelled on his
feast day
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.
See also
*
List of civil parishes of County Tipperary
*
List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland
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References
{{County Tipperary
Towns and villages in County Tipperary
Civil parishes of Ikerrin