Windgap
Windgap, is a village in County Kilkenny, in Ireland. Windgap is located in the south-western part of Kilkenny on the border with Tipperary, just south of Callan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Co. Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Bearra na Gaoithe” and “Windgap, County Kilkenny”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rossaneny Graveyard and Church ruin and Knockroe Passage Tomb.
Rossaneny Graveyard and Church ruin
Cemetery
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rossaneny Graveyard and Church ruin is a cemetery.
Knockroe Passage Tomb
Archaeological site
Photo: Laurel Lodged, Public domain.
Knockroe Passage Tomb is a prehistoric site, of the Neolithic period, in the townland of Knockroe in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about 10 km north of Carrick-on-Suir. Knockroe Passage Tomb is situated 3½ km south of Windgap.
Tobernaraha
Spring
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tobernaraha is a spring, which is situated 3 km south of Windgap.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ninemilehouse and Kilmaganny.
Ninemilehouse
Hamlet
Ninemilehouse, historically called Killcullen is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies on the N76 national secondary road at its junction with the R690 regional road. Ninemilehouse is situated 4½ km west of Windgap.
Kilmaganny
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilmoganny is a small village in the County Kilkenny in the south-east of Ireland. Saint Mogeanna was an Irish virgin whose feast day in the Irish Calendar of Saints is 29 January. Kilmaganny is situated 4½ km east of Windgap.
Dunnamaggin
Village
Dunnamaggin is a small village in the south County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the R699 road between Callan and Knocktopher, east of its intersection with the R697 between Kells and Kilmoganny. Dunnamaggin is situated 8 km northeast of Windgap.
Windgap
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.46179° or 52° 27′ 43″ northLongitude
-7.39723° or 7° 23′ 50″ westElevation
152 metres (499 feet)Open location code
9C4JFJ63+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 52230456OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Windgap” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Windgap (Kilkenny konderria)”
- Basque: “Windgap”
- Dutch: “Windgap”
- French: “Windgap”
- Irish: “Bearna na Gaoithe, Contae Chill Chainnigh”
- Irish: “Bearna na Gaoithe”
- Persian: “ویندگپ”
- Russian: “Уиндгап”
- Swedish: “Beárna na Gaoithe”
- Swedish: “Windgap”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Windgap”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.