Kilcoo

Kilcoo
Irish: *Cill Chua*
Kilcoo Irish: Cill Chua;
	Location within County Down
Population	1,415 (2001 Census)
District	Newry, Mourne and Down District Council;
County	County Down;
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWRY
Postcode district	BT
Dialling code	028
NI Assembly	South Down;
	List of places UK Northern Ireland Down 54°13′55″N 6°01′44″W / 54.232°N 6.029°W

Kilcoo (from Irish Cill Chua, meaning 'church of mourning' – from the legend that Saint Patrick's body stayed there while on its way to Downpatrick to be buried)^[1] is a small village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Rathfriland and Castlewellan and is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area. The village is on the A25 Dublin Road 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Castlewellan. Kilcoo had a population 1415 people in the 2001 Census.

Places of interest

Near Kilcoo is Lough Island Reavy, a small man-made lough. East of the lough is Drumena Cashel, a stone ringfort that was used in the Early Christian period (500–1200 AD).

Education

Saint Malachy's Primary School is a mixed gender school for students between the age of 4 and 11. It was opened in September 1970.

Sport

The village has one sporting club, Kilcoo GAC. This a Gaelic Athletic Association club with teams in Gaelic football and Camogie

2001 Census

Kilcoo is classified as a rural settlement by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) . Kilcoo is named as Tollymore Ward SOA 1 (Super Output Area) as the data contains the village itself and surrounding townlands of the village. On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 1415 people living in the Kilcoo area. Of these:

29.6% were under 16 years old and 12.2% were aged 60 and above
53.1% of the population were male and 46.9% were female
99.6% were from a Catholic Community Background and 0.4% were from a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' Community Background.
1.1% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.

Civil parish of Kilcoo

The civil parish is mainly in the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half with one townland in Iveagh Upper, Upper Half.^[2]

Map of the Kilcoo Parish

Townlands

Clonachullion (Clanawhillan), Kilcoo, County Down

The civil parish contains the following townlands:^[2]

References

^ Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)
^ ^a ^b "Kilcoo". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

[1] Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)

[Ire-2] "Kilcoo". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

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