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{{short description|Settlement and civil parish in County Limerick, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use Irish English|date=December 2021}}

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|name = Kilcornan
|native_name = {{lang|ga|Cill Churnáin}}
|native_name_lang = ga
|settlement_type = Civil Parish
|image_skyline = Digital Eye–2015–Curragh Chase, Co. Limerick-1.jpg
|image_caption = [[Curraghchase Forest Park]] is in the civil parish of Kilcornan
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'''Kilcornan''' ({{Irish place name|Cill Churnáin}}) is a [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] in [[County Limerick]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Placenames Database of Ireland|url=http://www.logainm.ie/1556.aspx|publisher=Dublin City University|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref> It is 17 km west of [[Limerick]] city on the [[N69 road (Ireland)|N69]] road. According to the 2011 [[census]] of Ireland the population of the Kilcornan Electoral Division was 749, an increase of 11.6% since 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2006 and 2011 by Electoral Division, Year and Statistic|url=http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/saveselections.asp|website=www.cso.ie}}</ref> There is a Catholic church and a National School on the main road as well as a public house. Apart from Curraghchase, the ancestral home of the Victorian Poet [[Aubrey Thomas de Vere|Aubrey de Vere]], the next most visited tourism site in Kilcornan is the Stonehall Visitor Park.{{fact|date=August 2019}} There is also a [[kart racing|go kart]] track. It is located across the [[River Shannon]] from [[Shannon Airport]], [[County Clare]].

==History==
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary notes that the earliest identifiable settlements in Kilcornan were Danish.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=Samuel|title=A Topographical Dictionary of Limerick City and County|url=http://www.lcc.ie/NR/rdonlyres/74B03914-0905-410F-A993-67D60BB7126A/0/KILCORNAN.pdf|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref> The lands changed hands several times during the [[Tudor conquest of Ireland|Tudor era]]. A large part of the parish was granted to [[Hardress Waller]], one of Cromwell's generals. [[Curraghchase Forest Park|Curraghchase]], the ancestral home of [[Aubrey Thomas de Vere|Aubrey de Vere]] is in Kilcornan. The parish was known as Stonehall until 1961 when under Canon Bluet it changed names to Kilcornan. In 1551 the rector of the parish, William Casey, was nominated by [[James FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond|James, the Earl of Desmond]] to be the first non-Catholic [[Bishop of Limerick#Church of Ireland succession|bishop of Limerick]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Begley|first1=John, Canon|title=The Diocese of Limerick in the 16th and 17th Centuries|date=1927|page=165}}</ref>
In 1659 the census counted 299 people in the parish, 291 ''Irish'' and 8 ''English''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Begley|first1=John, Canon|title=The Diocese of Limerick in the 16th and 17th Centuries|date=1927|page=255}}</ref> It is part of the [[Barony (Ireland)|Barony]] of [[Kenry]].{{fact|date=December 2021}}

[[Killeen Cowpark]] was built in the 15th century.{{fact|date=December 2021}}

==People==
* [[Ger McDonnell]], mountaineer and engineer, was born in Kilcornan. As the first Irishman to summit [[K2]] in August 2008, he went missing along with 10 others on the descent. In the worst single accident in the history of [[K2]] mountaineering, all were later confirmed dead.
* [[Aubrey Thomas de Vere]] (1814–1902), poet and critic, was born in Kilcornan

==See also==
* [[List of civil parishes of Ireland|List of Civil Parishes of Ireland]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.kilcornan.com Kilcornan Community Website]
* [http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Kilcornan/textKilcornan.htm Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project Kilcornan Parish]

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[[Category:Civil parishes of County Limerick]]

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