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Kilworth
Sign in to saveKilworth () is a village in north County Cork, Ireland, located about north of Fermoy near the River Funshion. The M8 Cork–Dublin motorway passes nearby. Kilworth has an army camp, located on the R639 regional road between Mitchelstown and Fermoy. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. Kilworth is part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.
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- Locality
- Fermoy
- Region
- Munster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,055
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Kilworth () is a village in north County Cork, Ireland, located about north of Fermoy near the River Funshion. The M8 Cork–Dublin motorway passes nearby. Kilworth has an army camp, located on the R639 regional road between Mitchelstown and Fermoy. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. Kilworth is part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.
==History== The name Kilworth comes from the Irish language term , literally meaning 'church of the order'. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Kilworth was a notable settlement on the old Dublin to Cork road, prior to the construction of the T6/old N8/R639 road from Fermoy to Cashel and from Cashel to Urlingford between 1739 and the mid-nineteenth century. Numerous accounts and maps dating from the 1680s tell of armies and travellers journeying from Fermoy to Clogheen and onwards to Dublin via Kilworth and Kilworth Mountain.
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