Kilronan, County Galway
The history of Kilronan
Honoria Gaffney, a Magnetic Fields song, and a village of 247 in 2016. 3 moments, in order.
- 1853
Honoria Gaffney
The woman who led the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace was born in the village.
- 1999
Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
The Magnetic Fields put the village in a song on 69 Love Songs.
- 2016
247 people
The census counted 247 in the village, 43.3 per cent of them speaking Irish every day outside school; fishing and tourism are the work, and schoolchildren come to the summer colleges for their Irish.
Where this comes from
Every paragraph above summarises a statement in Wikipedia, "Kilronan", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, as it read on 2026-09-19. Follow it for the footnotes. Nothing has been added from memory.