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Kilkee

County Clare, Ireland
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About Kilkee

Kilkee is a small coastal metropolis in County Clare, Ireland. It is inside the parish of Kilkee, formerly Kilfearagh. Kilkee is halfway between Kilrush and Doonbeg on the N67 avenue. The city is popular as a seaside inn. The horseshoe bay is covered from the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Duggerna Reef. During the early part of the nineteenth century, Kilkee changed into only a small fishing village but within the 1820s whilst a paddle steamer provider from Limerick to Kilrush changed into launched, it started out to draw visitors.

It has been a hotel considering that then and become featured on the the front page of the Illustrated London News because the choicest bathing spot in what became then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Gradually the metropolis grew as the demand for excursion houses through the ocean improved, ensuing in a constructing growth within the 1830s. As demand for accommodations in Kilkee grew, numerous inns had been constructed. Along with those, three churches were built, a Roman Catholic church in 1831, a Protestant church in 1843 and a Methodist church in 1900, reflecting the cosmopolitan experience of the city in that generation. Kilkee has frequently been awarded the Blue Flag by the European Commission. In 2006, a statue of Richard Harris was unveiled in Kilkee via actor Russell Crowe.

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