Killeter
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Killeter has a yearly August fair, which "celebrates the diversity and richness of rural life".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The village itself sits along an ancient pilgrimage trail which winds its way to Lough Derg. The national cycle network traverses part of this trail, which is bounded to the west by Killeter Forest.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The writer Benedict Kiely has stated that he based the fictional village of Carmincross, in his novel Nothing Happens in Carmincross, on Killeter.[4]
History
Near Killeter is the Magherakeel (Template:Irish derived place name) ecclesiastical site.[5] This site contains a holy well, lime kiln and ruins of a 6th century church.[6]
On 29 April 1844, a shower of meteoric stones fell, in the sight of several people, at Killeter. They were broken into small fragments and only one piece was found whole.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Killeter, plus the rural protrusion of Tyrone to its immediate west, would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.[7]
References
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- ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland
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- ↑ https://citypopulation.de/en/uk/northernireland/derry_city_and_strabane/N11000632__killeter/
- ↑ Afterword to Proxopera: A Tale of Modern Ireland (Godine, 1989)
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