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Kingfishr

Musical group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Kingfishr are an Irish indie folk group formed in Letterkenny in 2022 comprising members Eddie Keogh, Eoghan "McGoo" McGrath, and Eoin "Fitz" Fitzgibbon. The band's breakout success was their song "Killeagh", which reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart on 2 May 2025. Their debut studio album Halcyon was released in August 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kingfishr” 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.