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Killarney
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Killarney ( ; , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Ross Castle, Muckross House and Abbey, the Lakes of Killarney, MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Purple Mountain, Mangerton Mountain, Paps Mountain, the Gap of Dunloe and Torc Waterfall. Its natural heritage, history and location on the Ring of Kerry make Killarney a popular tourist destination.
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- Town
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- Killarney
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- 230px
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- Location of Killarney in Ireland
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- 1
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- right
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- 50
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- Ireland
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- Munster
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- County Kerry
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Cill Airne
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Kerry
- Population
- 14412
- Elevation
- 50
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- killarney.ie
- Image
- Killarney - Street Scene - geograph.org.uk - 661593.jpg
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- Killarney
- topic's main category
- Category:Killarney
- twinned administrative body
- Cooper City
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- Killarney
- Irish Grid Reference
- V969909
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Killarney
- historic county
- County Kerry
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Diyan Petkov
- P12749
- Louis Angely
- native label
- Cill Airne
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Killarney ( ; , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Ross Castle, Muckross House and Abbey, the Lakes of Killarney, MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Purple Mountain, Mangerton Mountain, Paps Mountain, the Gap of Dunloe and Torc Waterfall. Its natural heritage, history and location on the Ring of Kerry make Killarney a popular tourist destination.
The town's population was 14,412 as of the 2022 census, making it the second largest in the county. Killarney won the Best Kept Town award in 2007, in a cross-border competition jointly organised by the Department of the Environment and the Northern Ireland Amenity Council. In 2011, it was named Ireland's tidiest town and the cleanest town in the country by Irish Business Against Litter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Killarney” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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