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Kilcormac

County Offaly, Ireland
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About Kilcormac

Kilcormac Is a small metropolis in County Offaly, Ireland, located on the N52 at its junction with the R437 nearby road, between the towns of Tullamore and Birr. It is a small city whose nearby populace become predominantly employed via Bord and Mona to work the neighborhood peat bathrooms. The town is placed close to the Slieve Bloom Mountains. The Silver River flows through the metropolis. The city changed into greater usually called Frankford prior to Irish independence. The name Kilcormac comes from the Irish Cill Chormaic which means Cormac's Church. This call is primarily based at the local patron saint; Cormac Ua Liathain, a native of Cork, who paid a go to to St Colmcille at the well-known monastery he had based in Durrow in 553 A.D.

Cormac changed into so stimulated with the aid of the top notch saint that he joined Colmcille and spent many years at Durrow, sooner or later taking up as abbot after Colmcille had long past to Iona in Scotland. He ultimately based a church near the Silver River which became called Cill Chormaic. Over time the original church fell into break. Tradition holds that Cormac died in nearby Eglish following an attack through a couple of wolves. A window in English Church depicts the occasion.

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