Kilmoganny

Kilmoganny
Cill Mogeanna
Town
Kilmoganny

Location in Ireland

Coordinates: 52°27′47″N 7°19′43″W / 52.4630556°N 7.3286111°W / 52.4630556; -7.3286111Coordinates: 52°27′47″N 7°19′43″W / 52.4630556°N 7.3286111°W / 52.4630556; -7.3286111
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County County Kilkenny
Time zone WET (UTC+0)
  Summer (DST) IST (WEST) (UTC-1)
Irish Grid Reference S4560834636
Website www.kilkennycoco.ie

Kilmoganny (officially Kilmaganny; Irish: Cill Mogeanna, meaning "Church of Saint Mogeanna"[1][2]) is a small village in the County Kilkenny in the south-east of Ireland. Saint Mogeanna was an Irish virgin whose feast day in the Irish Calendar of Saints is 29 January.[2] Kilmoganny is in the Diocese of Ossory, in the civil parish of Kilmaganny.[1] St. Eoghan's Catholic church is in the parish of Dunnamaggin.[3] St. Matthew's Church of Ireland church is in Kells parish.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cill Mogeanna/Kilmaganny (town) Kilkenny". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Kilmaganny: more information". Placenames Database of Ireland. p. 12. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  3. "Dunamaggan". Parish Details. Ossory Diocese. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  4. "Kells". Dioceses & Parishes. Church of Ireland. Retrieved 12 November 2012.


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