Kilcloon

Kilcloon or Kilclone (Irish: Coill Chluana, meaning 'woodland of the meadow')[2] is a parish situated in the south-east of County Meath in Ireland.

The parish church is located at Ballynare Cross Roads in the village of Kilcloon with chapels in Kilcock and Batterstown.

Kilcloon village is centered at Ballynare Cross Roads where the parish church is located.

[7] Kilcloon is also defined as a postal town by An Post, though with the introduction of Eircodes in 2015, this has been subsumed into the A85 (Dunshaughlin) routing key.

[4] The system of baronies, manors and parishes persisted until the political and religious turmoil in England caused by the Reformation, civil wars and the introduction of the Penal Laws in the 16th and 17th centuries.

By the 18th century the Husseys had mostly disappeared from the parish and only two manors survived intact: Moyglare and Rathregan.

[citation needed] A sculpture of Oliver Plunkett is featured in the Kilcloon Millennium Garden.

[10] In 2018, Meath County Council granted permission for a 426 square metre community centre, on a site in the centre of the village of Kilcloon along with permission for the development of 13 sites for people who meet local needs criteria.

[12] The Collistown grounds are named after Cyril O'Brien, Jack Fitzgerald and John Kelly.

Civil parishes in Kilcloon
Ringfort in Rodanstown townland
Ruins of Rodanstown chapel
Kilclone Post Office