Kilcolgan (), is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in

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, Ireland. The settlement is at the junction of the N67 and R458 roads, which lies between

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. The village is near the site of the Galway Bay drowning tragedy. Kilcolgan was designated as a

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by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 141 people. The population was 194 at the 2022 census. The village is in a

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and

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of the same name.

Places of interest

* Tyrone House, a ruined manor house * Kilcolgan Bridge, late 18th-century stone bridge * Kilcolgan Castle, Gothic Revival country house * 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

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) and adjoining graveyard. * Moran's Oyster Cottage, historic restaurant located in a traditional thatched cottage, established in the 1760s. * Kiltiernan Church, medieval church and a National Monument

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Places of interest

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