Kilreekill

Kilrickle or Kilreekill (Irish: Cill Rícill)[1] is a civil parish and small village in County Galway, Ireland.

[3] The Irish place name Cill Rícill (meaning "church of Richill") is anglicised as 'Kilrickle' and 'Kilreekill'.

[1][4] It is associated with Richill – a local woman who, according to folklore, was a 5th-century contemporary of Saint Patrick and founded a church in the area.

[5][6] Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, souterrain and holy well sites in the townlands of Lecarrownagappoge, Dartfield and Wallscourt.

[9] Dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, it is within in the ecclesiastical parish of Cappatagle and Kilrickle in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clonfert.