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Country
  
Ireland

Time zone
  
WET (UTC+0)

Local time
  
Monday 6:20 PM

County
  
County Galway

Irish Grid Reference
  
M409203

Province
  
Connacht

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind SW at 23 km/h, 89% Humidity

Kilcolgan (Irish: Cill Cholgáin, meaning "Colgan's church"), is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland. The N18 passes through the settlement, which lies between Gort and Clarinbridge. The village is near the site of the Galway Bay drowning tragedy.

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Map of Kilcolgan, Co. Galway, Ireland

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 a fine 11th-century gothic carved doorway, a 19th-century mausoleum (celebrated by the British poet Sir John Betjeman) and adjoining graveyard.
  • Moran's Oyster Cottage, historic restaurant located in a traditional thatched cottage, established in the 1760s, operated by seven generations of the same family.

    • References

    Kilcolgan Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA