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Kilcoo
Sign in to savethumb|Kilcoo, County Down Kilcoo ( – from the legend that Saint Patrick's body stayed there while on its way to Downpatrick to be buried) is a small village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Rathfriland and Castlewellan and is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area. The village is on the A25 Dublin Road south-west of Castlewellan. Kilcoo had a population 496 people as of the 2021 census.
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- Locality
- Kilcoo
- Region
- Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Population
- 1415
- Image
- Kilcoo2009.jpg
- Dialing code
- 028
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- Kilcoo, County Down
- native label
- Cill Chua
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thumb|Kilcoo, County Down Kilcoo ( – from the legend that Saint Patrick's body stayed there while on its way to Downpatrick to be buried) is a small village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Rathfriland and Castlewellan and is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area. The village is on the A25 Dublin Road south-west of Castlewellan. Kilcoo had a population 496 people as of the 2021 census.
==Places of interest== Near Kilcoo is Lough Island Reavy, a small man-made lough. East of the lough is Drumena Cashel, a stone ringfort that was used in the Early Christian period (500–1200 AD).
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