Kilkelly

Kilkelly (Irish Cill Cheallaigh ) is a town in Ireland. It is located in the west of County Mayo in the province of Connacht, some 10 kilometers southwest of the town of Swinford and 10 kilometers south of Ballyglass. The village has 389 inhabitants ( as of 2006) ..

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In Kilkelly branches from the N 17 (Galway - Sligo) the road R 375 by Swinford from. The Knock Airport is approximately 5 kilometers away.

Attractions

• Abbey Urlaur Abbey ( former Dominican monastery, ruin)

Others

Known worldwide Kilkelly was the singer-songwriter Peter Jones. When Jones found letters from his great- great-grandfather to his great-grandfather John Hunt, who emigrated to America in 1855, he processed the contents of the letters in the ballad Kilkelly, Ireland. This distinguishes Jones a picture of Irish life in the 19th century.