Kilnaleck
Sign in to saveKilnaleck () is a village in County Cavan, Ireland on the R154 regional road. Kilnaleck was once the centre of a mining boom when, in 1879, some local businessmen and a school headmaster decided to develop the coal that existed nearby. However, the coal was very deep and hard to extract and the mine was forced to close. The village is within the civil parish of Crosserlough.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kilnaleck is referenced by 367 other articles, and connects out to Republic of Ireland, Irish and geographic coordinate system.
It is catalogued under topics including Towns and villages in County Cavan and Use Hiberno-English from December 2019.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kilnaleck
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- gle
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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- Kilnaleck.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The R154 regional road passes through Kilnaleck
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- Ireland
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- top
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- County Cavan
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ulster
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- Imperial
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- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 481
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- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Ulster
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Kilnaleck.jpg
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- Kilnaleck
- Irish Grid Reference
- N450910
- historic county
- County Cavan
- native label
- Cill na Leice
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Kilnaleck () is a village in County Cavan, Ireland on the R154 regional road. Kilnaleck was once the centre of a mining boom when, in 1879, some local businessmen and a school headmaster decided to develop the coal that existed nearby. However, the coal was very deep and hard to extract and the mine was forced to close. The village is within the civil parish of Crosserlough.
==Transport== In December 2023, Kilnaleck gained a regular several times daily (including Sundays) bus service. Route C2 operated by Local Link connects Kilnaleck with Ballinagh and Cavan. Over the decades Kilnaleck was served by CIÉ and from 1987 by Bus Éireann. However, in 2009 the remaining service, Bus Éireann route 179, was discontinued. Nowadays the nearest Bus Éireann routes may be accessed at Mountnugent (route 187) or Ballinagh (route 111A & 466), 7 km and 10 km distant respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilnaleck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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