Cill Charthaigh
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kilcar
Cill Charthaigh (anglicised as Kilcar) is a Gaeltacht village on the R263 regional road in the south-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is also a townland of 233 acres and a civil parish in the historic barony of Banagh.
Weather now
cached 1775h agoKey facts
- Settlement.other_name
- Kilcar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kilcar View from the Monastic Site 2010 09 24.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View from the monastic site at the old church down to the village, looking east. The R263 is to be seen as it leaves Kilcar in direction to Killybegs
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.footnotes
- Cill Charthaigh is the only official name. The anglicised spelling Kilcar has no official status.
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ulster
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Donegal
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Barony
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Banagh
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Dáil Éireann
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Donegal
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Gaeltacht
- Official name
- Kilcar
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Donegal
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- home.kilcar.net
- Image
- Kilcar View from the Monastic Site 2010 09 24.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Kilcar
- Irish Grid Reference
- G614763
- historic county
- County Donegal
- native label
- Cill Charthaigh
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Culture
- Sport and outdoor activities
- People
- See also
- References
- External links
Cill Charthaigh (anglicised as Kilcar) is a Gaeltacht village on the R263 regional road in the south-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is also a townland of 233 acres and a civil parish in the historic barony of Banagh.
Kilcar's main street has a Catholic church (known locally as 'the chapel') at one end and two textile factories at the other end. In between there are several shops and three pubs. The village has a tweed handweaving facility, with a shop selling tweed products. Kilcar is also known for its tradition in knitting.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cill Charthaigh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations