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Killarney Racecourse

horse racing venue in the Republic of Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6407326 ↗
Source-derived summary

Killarney Racecourse is a horse racing venue in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland which stages both National Hunt and Flat racing. Racing at Killarney has been taking place since 1822. The course is a left-handed oval, one mile and two furlongs in circumference.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Killarney Racecourse” as horse racing venue in the Republic of Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1822—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Killarney, Racecourse and horse can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as horse racing venue in the Republic of Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6407326. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1822.

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This entry incorporates text from “Killarney Racecourse” 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.