Kilkelly
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, Ireland
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. It is just south of Knock International Airport, lying between the Airport and the town of Knock itself. The village is along the N17, a national primary road
National primary road
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running between Galway and Sligo. Kilkelly has many shops, such as Tarpeys.
Kilkelly is a small village, notable due to the song "Kilkelly, Ireland
Kilkelly, Ireland (song)
"Kilkelly, Ireland" is a song by Steven and Peter Jones. It tells the story of an Irish emigrant to America through a series of letters from his father back in Kilkelly. It has covering the period between 1860 and 1890....
", written by American song writer Peter Jones, who discovered a series of letters to his Irish immigrant ancestor by that ancestor's father, mother and siblings with one of the letters written by a schoolmaster in Kilkelly.
See also
- List of towns and villages in Ireland