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Kilcormac

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Kilcormac is a small town in County Offaly, Ireland, located on the N52 at its junction with the R437 regional road, between the towns of Tullamore and Birr. [1]

45 relations: Anglicanism, Ballyboy, Ballyboy (barony), Birr, County Offaly, Bog, Boora Bog, Bord na Móna, Cadamstown, Carmelites, Catholic Church, Church of Ireland, Columba, Counties of Ireland, County Offaly, Durrow, County Offaly, Firceall, Gaelic games, Hurling, Iona, Irish grid reference system, Kilcormac/Killoughey GAA, Kingdom of Meath, Leinster, Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship, List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, Mary, mother of Jesus, N52 road (Ireland), Offaly Express, Offaly Senior Hurling Championship, Oliver Cromwell, Patron saint, Penal Laws (Ireland), Pietà, Provinces of Ireland, R437 road (Ireland), Regional road (Ireland), Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Silver River (Ireland), Slieve Bloom Mountains, State religion, Time in Ireland, Tullamore, Western European Summer Time, Western European Time.

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Ballyboy

Ballyboy or Ballaboy is a village in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Ballyboy (barony)

Ballyboy is a barony in County Offaly (formerly King's County), Republic of Ireland.

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Birr, County Offaly

Birr (Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Bog

A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.

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Boora Bog

Boora Bog (Irish Portach na Buaraí) is a cutaway peat bog situated in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Bord na Móna

Bord na Móna (Irish pronunciation: bˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ nə mˠoːn̪ˠə — English: Peat Board), is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946.

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Cadamstown

Cadamstown, historically called Ballymacadam, is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel by synecdoche; Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo) is a Roman Catholic religious order founded, probably in the 12th century, on Mount Carmel in the Crusader States, hence the name Carmelites.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Columba

Saint Columba (Colm Cille, 'church dove'; Columbkille; 7 December 521 – 9 June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

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Counties of Ireland

The counties of Ireland (contaetha na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: coonties o Airlann) are sub-national divisions that have been, and in some cases continue to be, used to geographically demarcate areas of local government.

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County Offaly

County Offaly (Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Ireland.

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Durrow, County Offaly

Durrow (meaning 'plain of the oaks') is a small rural village in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Firceall

Firceall was an ancient Gaelic Irish territory which formed the most south - westerly part of the ancient Kingdom of Meath.

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Gaelic games

Gaelic games are sports played in Ireland under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

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Hurling

Hurling (iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin.

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Iona

Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.

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Irish grid reference system

The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used for paper mapping in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland).

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Kilcormac/Killoughey GAA

Kilcormac/Killoughey GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the areas of Kilcormac and Killoughey, County Offaly, Ireland.

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Kingdom of Meath

Meath (Old Irish: Mide; spelt Mí in Modern Irish) was a kingdom in Ireland for over 1000 years.

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Leinster

Leinster (— Laighin / Cúige Laighean — /) is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland.

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Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship

The Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Leinster GAA Hurling Senior Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1970 for the champion hurling teams in the province of Leinster in Ireland.

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List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland

This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin and other major urban areas.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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N52 road (Ireland)

The N52 road is a national secondary road in Ireland.

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Offaly Express

The Offaly Express is an online newspaper and former print newspaper in Ireland that serves County Offaly.

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Offaly Senior Hurling Championship

The Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Molloy Environmental Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1896 for the top hurling teams in the county of Offaly in Ireland.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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Penal Laws (Ireland)

In the island of Ireland, Penal Laws (Na Péindlíthe) were a series of laws imposed in an attempt to force Irish Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters (such as local Presbyterians) to accept the reformed denomination as defined by the English state established Anglican Church and practised by members of the Irish state established Church of Ireland.

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Pietà

A pietà (meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture.

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Provinces of Ireland

Since the early 17th-century there have been four Provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

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R437 road (Ireland)

The R437 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs northwest-southeast from the N62 near Ferbane, County Offaly to the N52 in Kilcormac, County Offaly.

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Regional road (Ireland)

A regional road (bóthar réigiúnach) in Ireland is a class of road not forming a major route (such as a national primary road or national secondary road), but nevertheless forming a link in the national route network.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Silver River (Ireland)

The Silver River flows from the Slieve Bloom Mountains in the south of County Offaly in central Ireland.

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Slieve Bloom Mountains

The Slieve Bloom Mountains (Sliabh Bladhma) are a mountain range in Ireland.

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State religion

A state religion (also called an established religion or official religion) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.

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Time in Ireland

Ireland uses Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+01:00; Am Caighdeánach Éireannach) in the summer months and Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0; Meán-Am Greenwich) in the winter period.

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Tullamore

Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly, in the midlands of Ireland, and is located in the centre of the county.

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Western European Summer Time

Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Western European Time

Western European Time (WET, UTC±00:00) is a time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcormac

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