Kilcolgan

Kilcolgan (Irish: Cill Cholgáin, meaning "Colgan's church"),[1] 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
Town
Kilcolgan Castle
Kilcolgan
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°12′45″N 8°52′21″W
CountryIreland
ProvinceConnacht
CountyCounty Galway
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceM409203

Places of interest
  • Tyrone House, a ruined manor house[2]
  • Kilcolgan Bridge, late 18th-century stone bridge[3]
  • Kilcolgan Castle, Gothic Revival country house[4]
  • St Sourney (Sairnait)'s church and well, a religious site dating from the 6th Century with an 11th-century gothic carved doorway, a 19th-century mausoleum (celebrated by the British poet Sir John Betjeman) and adjoining graveyard.
  • Moran's Oyster Cottage, historic restaurant located in a traditional thatched cottage, established in the 1760s, operated by seven generations of the same family.
  • Kiltiernan Church, medieval church and a National Monument[5]

See also

References
  1. Kilcolgan profile, Irish Placenames Database; retrieved 18 January 2018.
  3. "Kilcolgan Bridge, County Galway". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. "Kilcolgan Castle, County Galway". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  5. , p. 10
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