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Knock

Knock is a village in in the west of Ireland which has a Marian pilgrimage shrine and is near the regional airport. In Irish Cnoc means "hill", a very common placename, so this one is Cnoc Mhuire, "Hill of the Virgin Mary".
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  • Type: Town with 972 residents
  • Description: village in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland
  • Also known as: “Knock (Ireland)” and “Knock, County Mayo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Knock Shrine and Knock basilica.

Photo: paultcowan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, commonly referred to as , is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site and national shrine in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, where locals claimed to have seen an apparition in 1879 of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint John the Evangelist, angels, and Jesus Christ.

Church
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The Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of Ireland is a Roman Catholic basilica church of the Latin Church located in the small town of Knock, in in Ireland.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bekan.

Village
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is a village in , Ireland. Because of the almost entirely rural population, it is traditionally a farming community. The village is between and Knock on the L1501 local road which connects the N60 and R323 roads. is situated 6 km southeast of Knock.

Knock

Latitude
53.7948° or 53° 47′ 41″ north
Longitude
-8.9194° or 8° 55′ 10″ west
Population
972
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
IATA airport code
NOC
United Nations Location Code
IE NOC
Open location code
9C5HQ3VJ+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52231291
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2963139
Wiki­data ID
Q858133
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Tornedalen Finnish—“Knock” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Knock”
  • Basque: “Knock”
  • Cebuano: “Knock”
  • Chinese: “科诺克”
  • Chinese: “科諾克”
  • Chinese: “諾克”
  • Dutch: “Knock”
  • Finnish: “Knock”
  • French: “Knock”
  • Galician: “Knock”
  • Georgian: “ნოკი”
  • German: “Knock”
  • Irish: “An Cnoc”
  • Irish: “Cnoc Mhuire, Contae Mhaigh Eo”
  • Irish: “Cnoc Mhuire”
  • Irish: “Knock sa Bhéarla”
  • Italian: “An Cnoc”
  • Italian: “Cnoc Mhuire”
  • Italian: “Knock”
  • Japanese: “クノック”
  • Japanese: “ノック”
  • Persian: “ناک، شهرستان مایو”
  • Persian: “ناک”
  • Polish: “Knock”
  • Russian: “Нок”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cnoc Mhuire”
  • Spanish: “Knock”
  • Swedish: “Knock, Mayo”
  • Swedish: “Knock”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Knock”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Knock”. Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.