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Coolkenno · Co. Wicklow

Where Ancient Clans Meet Medical Pioneers

On May 10th, 1883, twelve-year-old Thomas McWhood writhed on an operating table in Fergus, Ontario, when Dr. Abraham Groves made history performing North America's first appendectomy using only a flame-heated probe to sterilize the severed organ, unknowingly fulfilling the me…

Coolkenno is a small place in County Wicklow. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.