Kilkishen
village in County Clare, Ireland
Kilkishen (Irish: Cill Chisín) is a village in southeast County Clare, Ireland. The village is 8 km (5 mi) east of Quin and 14 km (9 mi) north of Shannon.
Demographics
According to a report by Samuel Lewis in 1837, Kilkishen had a population of 519. At the 2006 Census the population was 443, a rise from 324 at the 2002 Census. The population of the village, at the 2022 census, was 651.
Facilities
Kilkishen is in the civil parish of Clonlea and in the Catholic parish of O'Callaghans Mills. and was owned by the Studderts of Kilkishen House. The first Catholic church at Kilkishen, St Senan's, was probably built very early in the 19th century. It is mentioned in an 1811 report of a dispute that led to violence over who should sit nearest to the altar. Major renovation or reconstruction of the church was completed in 1865.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kilkishen” is village in County Clare, Ireland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kilkishen, village and County, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15462101. Authority coordinates are 52.807, -8.747. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1837, 2006, 2002 and 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kilkishen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.