Kilcornan

Kilcornan
Cill Churnáin
Civil Parish
Curraghchase Forest Park is in the civil parish of Kilcornan
Curraghchase Forest Park is in the civil parish of Kilcornan
Kilcornan is located in Ireland
Kilcornan
Kilcornan
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°37′00″N 08°53′00″W / 52.61667°N 8.88333°W / 52.61667; -8.88333
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Limerick
Population
 (2006)
 • Total
671
Time zoneUTC+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.

  1. ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Dublin City University. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2006 and 2011 by Electoral Division, Year and Statistic". www.cso.ie.