Crecora

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Crecora
Craobh Chomhartha
Village
Crecora Post Office (geograph 2022347) (cropped).jpg
Crecora post office
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Crecora
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°34′29″N8°40′5″W / 52.57472°N 8.66806°W / 52.57472; -8.66806
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Limerick
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference R547472

Crecora ( /ˈkrɛkrə/ ; Irish : Craobh Chomhartha, meaning 'tree of (the) sign') [1] is a village in County Limerick, Ireland, 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Limerick city centre (15 km by road). The village is partly in a civil parish of the same name. [1]

The small village has a school, stone yard, garden centre, GAA pitch (of Crecora/Manister GAA), post office and a Roman Catholic church. This church, Saints Peter and Paul's church, was built in 1864 and is in the parish of Mungret, Crecora and Raheen within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick. [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Crecora / Craobh Chomhartha". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  2. "Saints Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Skehanagh, Crecora, County Limerick". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  3. "Crecora Church". mcrparish.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.