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Kilcoole · Co. Wicklow

Where Ancient Monks Blessed Ireland's Largest Tern Colony

On Christmas Day 1641, musket fire echoed across Kilcoole (Cill Comhghaill, pronounced kill-CO-will) when Crown forces attacked and defeated rebel forces in one of the first major engagements of the Irish Confederate Wars, while this "church of Comhghall" beside the Irish Sea …

Kilcoole 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.