Knockanure
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| name = Knockanure
| native_name = {{lang|ga|Cnoc an Iúir}}
| native_name_lang = ga
| settlement_type = Civil parish
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Ireland
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_type2 = County
| subdivision_name1 = Munster
| subdivision_name2 = County Kerry
| unit_pref = Metric
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Knockanure ({{langx|ga|Cnoc an Iúir}}){{cite web|website = logainm.ie | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1110 | title = Cnoc an Iúir/Knockanure | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | accessdate = 6 April 2024 }} is a civil parish in County Kerry, Ireland. It is near the town of Listowel and the village of Moyvane.
Amenities
Knockanure parish contains a Catholic church, the Church Of Corpus Christi, which was built in 1964.{{r|"Hill 2010 p. 603"}} Scoil Chorp Chríost is the primary school in Knockanure. There is a pub called Flynn's Bar.{{r|"Andreassen 1996"}}
Population centres within Knockanure civil parish include Kilmorna ({{irish place name|Coill Mhaonaigh}}).{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1110/sub/ID | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie | title = Sub-units of: Cnoc an Iúir/Knockanure | accessdate = 6 April 2024 | quote = Coill Mhaonaigh/Kilmorna [..] population centre [..] Civil Parish Cnoc an Iúir/Knockanure}} Kilmorna House, a former country house historically associated with the Vicars and Mahony families, was burned during the Irish War of Independence in April 1921.{{cite news | title = Murder of Sir A. Vicars | newspaper = The Times | date = 15 April 1921}}{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/news/the-kilmorna-papers-a-familys-long-awaited-closure/40992909.html | work = The Kerryman | title = The Kilmorna Papers: A family’s long-awaited 'closure' | date = 28 October 2021 | accessdate = 6 April 2024 }}{{cite web|url = https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/online-exhibitions/the-war-of-independence-in-north-kerry-1921/kilmorna-house-sir-arthur-vicars/ | work = kerrywritersmuseum.com | title = The War Of Independence In North Kerry 1921 - Kilmorna House & Sir Arthur Vicar | accessdate = 6 April 2024 }}
People
- Dan Keane (1919–2012), poet{{r|"Sweeney 2012"}}
- Maureen Flavin Sweeney (1923–2023), postmistress involved in weather forecasting for Operation Overlord{{Cite web |title=Tributes paid to North Kerry woman who helped Allied Forces defeat Nazi Germany |url=https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/tributes-paid-to-north-kerry-woman-who-helped-allied-forces-defeat-nazi-germany-361676 |access-date=2023-12-19 |website=RadioKerry.ie |language=en}}
See also
References
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| last = Andreassen
| first = E.
| title = Visions and Identities: Proceedings from the 24th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission Für Volksdichtung (Société Internationale D'ethnologie Et de Folklore), Tórshavn, June 26th to June 30th 1994
| publisher = Tungulist
| series = Annales Societatis Scientiarum Faeroensis: Supplementum
| year = 1996
| isbn = 978-99918-41-22-9
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGTYAAAAMAAJ
| access-date = 26 August 2018
| page = 125
| quote = A real case of vindictiveness in the eyes of the song maker, Willie Finucane, occurred on New Year's Eve 1967 when customers in Flynn's Pub in Knockanure, County Kerry, were summoned by a Garda Keane who entered the premises while ...
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| last = Hill
| first = J.R.
| title = A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921–84
| publisher = OUP Oxford
| series = New History of Ireland
| year = 2010
| isbn = 978-0-19-959282-1
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wikUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA603
| access-date = 26 August 2018
| page = 603
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| last = Sweeney
| first = Peggy
| title = Dan Keane (1919–2012) – The Middle Plain
| website = Moyvane – The Middle Plain
| date = 4 January 2012
| url = http://www.moyvane.com/people/tribute-to-dan-keane/
| access-date = 26 August 2018
}}
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{{County Kerry}}
Category:Towns and villages in County Kerry
Category:Civil parishes of County Kerry
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