Kilkelly

Kilkelly (Irish: Cill Cheallaigh[2]) is a village in Kilmovee parish County Mayo, Ireland. It is just south of Ireland West Airport Knock on the N17, a national primary road running between Galway and Sligo.

Kilkelly Cill Cheallaigh
Village
Kilkelly Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°52′17″N 8°51′01″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	County Mayo
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	373
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	M441911

Kilkelly is a small village, notable due to the song "Kilkelly, Ireland", written by American songwriter Peter Jones. In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Jones discovered a collection of century-old letters sent to his Irish emigrant ancestor in America from that ancestor's father in Kilkelly.[3][4] Jones wrote a ballad based on the contents of those letters, conveying the experience of his own family as well as others who were separated permanently by emigration.[3][4][5]

People

• Peter Jones, American singer-songwriter and composer of the Irish emigration song "Kilkelly, Ireland", his great-great-great grandfather Bryan Hunt came from nearby Urlar.
• George Harrison, IRA member and arms trafficker.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

1. "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Kilkelly". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 19 July 2018.
2. "Cill Cheallaigh/Kilkelly". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
3. "Kilkelly". Mayo Ireland Ltd. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
4. O'Shea, James (16 September 2016). "Letters of a family to their son in America after the Famine". IrishCentral. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
5. Healey, Joseph F. (2011). Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The sociology of group conflict and change. Pine Forge Press. p. 85. ISBN 1412987318.

External links

• Mayo On The Move's page for Kilkelly, Co. Mayo