Knocknagoshel
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| Knocknagoshel Cnoc na gCaiseal |
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| Irish grid reference R055208 |
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| Province: | Munster | |
| County: | County Kerry | |
| Population (2006) | 721 | |
Knocknagoshel or Knocknagashel (Cnoc na gCaiseal, meaning "castle hill", in Irish) is a village in County Kerry, Ireland. According to the 2006 census, the population of the village was 721.[1]
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[edit] History
Knocknagoshel is a place remembered in Irish history for the extraordinary banner carried aloft by local men at a rally addressed by Irish politician, Charles Stuart Parnell, in Newcastle West in 1891.
"Rise up Knocknagoshel, and take your place among the nations of the earth!"
The banner bearing of 1891 is today commemorated with a plaque on the gable end of a house in the centre of Knocknagoshel village.
Just outside the village in a steeply inclined field, which in 1923 was part of Baranarigh Wood, five soldiers of the Irish Free State National Army were killed by a booby trap mine on 6 March of that year during the Irish Civil War. The men killed at Knocknagoshel included three officers and two privates, one of whom was a local man. Lieutenant Pat O’Connor was targeted by the Anti-Treaty IRA because of his knowledge of the local I.R.A. organisation and the men involved in it and because of the energetic manner in which he pursued the Anti-Treaty guerrillas. The soldiers were lured into the mine by false information about a republican dug out in the area. The atrocity was to lead to a series of reprisals against the anti-treaty side and the Free State troops killed 19 republican prisoners in county Kerry over the following two weeks (see Executions during the Irish Civil War).
The Gaelic footballer Eddie Walsh, who played at half-back with Kerry GAA, was from Knocknagoshel.
[edit] Festivals, Arts and Culture
Knocknagoshel hosts many festivals through out the year with the Mindana Halloween Festival being one of the major ones. Mindana is a local street theater group.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Census 2006 – Volume 1 – Population Classified by Area. Central Statistics Office Census 2006 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland (April 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-18.
[edit] See also
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