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Kilcoo

Village in County Down, Northern Ireland

Field	Value
official_name	Kilcoo
irish_name	Cill Chua
map_type	Northern Ireland
coordinates
label_position	none
population	1415
population_ref	(2001 Census)
unitary_northern_ireland	Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
lieutenancy_northern_ireland	County Down
constituency_ni_assembly	South Down
country	Northern Ireland
post_town	NEWRY
postcode_area	BT
dial_code	028
hide_services	yes

Kilcoo ( – from the legend that Saint Patrick's body stayed there while on its way to Downpatrick to be buried) is a small village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Rathfriland and Castlewellan and is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area. The village is on the A25 Dublin Road 6 km south-west of Castlewellan. Kilcoo had a population 1415 people in the 2001 Census.

Places of interest

Near Kilcoo is Lough Island Reavy, a small man-made lough. East of the lough is Drumena Cashel, a stone ringfort that was used in the Early Christian period (500–1200 AD).

Education

Saint Malachy's Primary School is a mixed gender school for students between the age of 4 and 11. It was opened in September 1970.

Sport

The village has one sporting club, Kilcoo GAC. This a Gaelic Athletic Association club with teams in Gaelic football and Camogie

2001 Census

Kilcoo is classified as a rural settlement by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) . Kilcoo is named as Tollymore Ward SOA 1 (Super Output Area) as the data contains the village itself and surrounding townlands of the village. On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 1415 people living in the Kilcoo area. Of these:

29.6% were under 16 years old and 12.2% were aged 60 and above
53.1% of the population were male and 46.9% were female
99.6% were from a Catholic Community Background and 0.4% were from a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' Community Background.
1.1% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.

Civil parish of Kilcoo

The civil parish is mainly in the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half with one townland in Iveagh Upper, Upper Half.

Townlands

The civil parish contains the following townlands:

Aghacullion
Ardaghy
Ballaghbeg
Ballyhafry
Ballymoney
Burrenbane
Burrenreagh
Clonachullion
Cock Mountain Common
Cross
Drumena
Fofannybane
Fofannyreagh
Letalian
Moneyscalp
Moyad
Slievenalargy
Tollymore Park
Tullybranigan
Tullynasoo
Tullyree

References

[http://www.logainm.ie/65737.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] (see archival records)
"Kilcoo".

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