Keenagh

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Keenagh
Irish: Caonach
Village
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Main Street (R397) with clock tower
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Keenagh
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°37′24″N7°48′58″W / 53.623458°N 7.816086°W / 53.623458; -7.816086
CountryIreland
Province Leinster
County County Longford
Population
 (2016) [1]
581
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
  Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference N125638

Keenagh or Kenagh (Irish : Caonach, meaning 'mossy place') [2] [3] is a village in County Longford, Ireland. It is situated on the R397 near the Royal Canal.

A small village with two churches (Catholic and Church of Ireland), a couple of shops and three pubs, it lies 14 km (8.7 mi) south of Longford Town. There are also GAA and soccer clubs in the village, as well as a community centre.[ citation needed ]

Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway near the village.

The Newcomen Baronets were the local landowners for several generations.

In the period 2000 to 2007 many new houses were built around Keenagh, due to the tax incentives available in the area and without direct consideration to demand. As of 2010, many were vacant or incomplete constituting ghost estates. [4] Between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of Keenagh more than doubled from 225 to 581 inhabitants. [1] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Keenagh". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  2. A. D. Mills (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press.
  3. "Caonach / Keenagh (see archival records)". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  4. "Voices from the ghost estates". Longford Leader. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  5. "Keenagh (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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