Kilkieran
Cill Chiaráin is a coastal village in the Connemara area of County Galway in Ireland. The R340 passes through Cill Chiaráin. Cill Chiaráin lies in a Gaeltacht region, and Coláiste Sheosaimh hosts Irish language courses within the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in the Republic of Ireland
- Also known as: “Cill Chiaráin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ardmore Quay.
Ardmore Quay
Pier
Photo: Newbert12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ardmore Quay is a pier, which is situated 4 km southwest of Kilkieran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carna and Lettermore.
Carna
Village
Photo: Dr Charles Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carna is an area in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the country's west coast in the Gaeltacht, about 74 km west of Galway city. Carna is an extremely small area, but as a focal point for the surrounding areas, it contains a Garda Síochána station, a Health Centre including a Rapid Response Ambulance, and an Irish Coastguard lifeboat. Carna is situated 7 km west of Kilkieran.
Lettermore
Village
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lettermore is a Gaeltacht village in County Galway, Ireland. It is also the name of the island, linked by road to the mainland, on which the village sits. Lettermore is situated 7 km southeast of Kilkieran.
Bealadangan
Hamlet
Béal an Daingin or Béal a' Daingin is a small Gaeltacht village in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The primary spoken language is Irish, and all but a few of the elderly population also speak English. Bealadangan is situated 8 km east of Kilkieran.
Kilkieran
- Categories: human settlement, Gaeltacht, and locality
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.32583° or 53° 19′ 33″ northLongitude
-9.73528° or 9° 44′ 7″ westElevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE IKNOpen location code
9C5G87G7+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 52234009OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2963394Wikidata ID
Q2424891
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Kilkieran” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cill Chiaráin”
- Catalan: “Cill Chiaráin”
- Dutch: “Cill Chiaráin”
- Irish: “Cill Chiaráin”
- Japanese: “キルキーラン”
- Russian: “Килкиран”
- Spanish: “Kilkieran”
- Swedish: “Kilkieran”
- Turkish: “Kilkieran”
- “Cill Chiaráin”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilkieran Post Office and Cill Chiaráin Cemetery.
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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 “Kilkieran”. Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.