Keenagh or Kenagh (Irish: Caonach, meaning 'mossy place')[2][3] is a village in County Longford, Ireland. 14 km (9 mi) south of Longford town, it is on the R397 near the Royal Canal.
Keenagh
Irish: Caonach | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Main Street (R397) with clock tower, 2007 | |
  Keenagh Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°37′24″N 7°48′58″W / 53.623458°N 7.816086°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Longford |
| Population | 581 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | N125638 |
The village has two churches (Catholic and Church of Ireland), a couple of shops and three pubs. There are also GAA and soccer clubs in the village, as well as a community centre.[citation needed]
Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway near the village.
The Newcomen Baronets were the local landowners for several generations.
In the period 2000 to 2007 many new houses were built around Keenagh, due to the tax incentives available in the area and without direct consideration to demand. As of 2010, many were vacant or incomplete constituting ghost estates.[4] Between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of Keenagh more than doubled from 225 to 581 inhabitants.[1][5]
See also
edit- List of towns and villages in Ireland
- Keenagh, Templeport, a townland in the parish of Templeport, County Cavan
References
edit- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Keenagh". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ A. D. Mills (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Caonach / Keenagh (see archival records)". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Voices from the ghost estates". Longford Leader. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ "Keenagh (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 2 February 2020.