Knockanure

Knockanure
Knockanure
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°27′45″N 9°22′16″W / 52.462408°N 9.371027°W / 52.462408; -9.371027Coordinates: 52°27′45″N 9°22′16″W / 52.462408°N 9.371027°W / 52.462408; -9.371027
Country Ireland
Province Munster
County County Kerry

Knockanure is a village in County Kerry, Ireland, and is located near the town of Listowel and the village of Moyvane.

Amenities

Knockanure has one church, The Church Of Corpus Christi, which was built in 1964.[1] Scoil Chorp Chríost is the primary school in Knockanure. The pub is called Flynn's Bar.[2]

Notable residents

  • Dan Keane (1919–2012), poet[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hill, J.R. (2010). A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921–84. New History of Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 603. ISBN 978-0-19-959282-1. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Andreassen, E. (1996). Visions and Identities: Proceedings from the 24th International Ballad Conference of the Kommission Für Volksdichtung (Société Internationale D'ethnologie Et de Folklore), Tórshavn, June 26th to June 30th 1994. Annales Societatis Scientiarum Faeroensis: Supplementum. Tungulist. p. 125. ISBN 978-99918-41-22-9. Retrieved 26 August 2018. A real case of vindictiveness in the eyes of the song maker, Willie Finucane, occurred on New Year's Eve 1967 when customers in Flynn's Pub in Knockanure, County Kerry, were summoned by a Garda Keane who entered the premises while ...
  3. ↑ Sweeney., Peggy (4 January 2012). "Dan Keane (1919–2012) – The Middle Plain". Moyvane – The Middle Plain. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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