Kilcoole
Irish: Cill Chomhghaill | |
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Town | |
 Pump in the centre of Kilcoole | |
  Kilcoole Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°06′23″N 6°03′52″W / 53.1063°N 6.0645°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Wicklow |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population | 4,239 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | O293080 |
Kilcoole (Irish: Cill Chomhghaill, meaning 'church of Comhghall')[2][3] is a town in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Greystones, 14 km (9 mi) north of Wicklow, and about 28 km (17 mi) south of Dublin. The town is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[2] Kilcoole was used as a filming location for the Irish television series Glenroe, which ran through the 1980s and 1990s.
The town has a large industrial estate to the south. An area of marshland runs along the coast from Kilcoole south to Wicklow town, called the Murragh. This area is home to many endangered species of plants and animals. The nearby beach is the summertime home of the little tern, one of the few places in Ireland where these birds nest. Within Kilcoole, is an area of flora known as the Rock which is a huge rock/hill that predates the Cambrian Period.
Kilcoole is in the Roman Catholic parish of Kilquade and the local church, St. Anthony's Church, was opened in 1968.[4]
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlement - Kilcoole". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016.
- ^ a b "Cill Chomhghaill / Kilcoole". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "History". kilcoole.ie. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "The History of St. Anthony's Church". gkpastoralarea.ie. Parishes of Greystones and Kilquade. Retrieved 13 January 2023.