Kilcornan
Cill Churnáin | |
|---|---|
Civil Parish | |
 Curraghchase Forest Park is in the civil parish of Kilcornan | |
  Kilcornan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°37′00″N 08°53′00″W / 52.61667°N 8.88333°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Limerick |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 671 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Kilcornan (Irish: Cill Churnáin) is a civil parish in County Limerick.[1] It is 17 km west of Limerick city on the N69 road. According to the 2011 census of Ireland the population of the Kilcornan Electoral Division was 749, an increase of 11.6% since 2006.[2] There is a Catholic church and a National School on the main road as well as a public house. Apart from Curraghchase, the ancestral home of the Victorian Poet Aubrey de Vere, the next most visited tourism site in Kilcornan is the Stonehall Visitor Park.[citation needed] There is also a go kart track. It is located across the River Shannon from Shannon Airport, County Clare.
- ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Dublin City University. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ "Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2006 and 2011 by Electoral Division, Year and Statistic". www.cso.ie.