Kilcolgan
Cill Cholgáin | |
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Village | |
 Kilcolgan Castle | |
  Kilcolgan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°12′45″N 8°52′21″W / 53.212466°N 8.872433°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Galway |
| Population (2016)[1] | 141 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | M409203 |
Kilcolgan (Irish: Cill Cholgáin, meaning 'Colgan's church'),[2] is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland. The settlement is at the junction of the N67 and R458 roads, which lies between Gort and Clarinbridge. The village is near the site of the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. Kilcolgan was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[3] at which time it had a population of 141 people.[1]
- ^ a b "Kilcolgan (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ Kilcolgan profile, Irish Placenames Database; retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement". CSO. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] Kilcolgan