Killinkere
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Killinkere Irish: Cillín Chéir |
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 Killinkere
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| Coordinates: 53°53′13″N 7°3′52″W / 53.88694°N 7.06444°WCoordinates: 53°53′13″N 7°3′52″W / 53.88694°N 7.06444°W | |
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 Republic of Ireland
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| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Cavan |
| Irish grid reference | N615934 |
Killinkere (Irish: Cillín Chéir, meaning "Little Black Church") is a civil and ecclesiastical parish of County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. It is located between the towns of Virginia and Bailieborough.
Killinkere gave its name to an Irish civil parish and was located mainly in the barony of Castlerahan, but partly in the barony of Upper Loughtee, all in County Cavan in the Province of Ulster. The Civil Parish of Killinkere was used for local taxation and was shown on the nineteenth century Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps. For poor law purposes the Civil Parish was replaced by District Electoral Divisions in the mid-nineteenth century. According to the 1851 census the Civil Parish had a total of 49 townlands.
Killinkere Parish Church, Beagh Glebe, Killinkere, was built in 1817. It is the oldest of the churches in the Virginia Group of Parishes in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. The other churches in the group are Lurgan Parish Church in Virginia (built 1821), Munterconnaught Parish Church (built 1831), and Billis Church (built 1844). The four churches were amalgamated under one incumbency in 1972.
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