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Killaloe (/ ˌ k ɪ l ə ˈ l uː / kil-ə-LOO; Irish: Cill Dalua, meaning 'church of Dalua' [7]) is a small town in east County Clare, Ireland.It lies on the River Shannon on the western bank of Lough Derg and is connected by Killaloe Bridge to the "twin town" of Ballina on the eastern bank of the lake.
"Killaloe" is a popular march in the Irish Regiments of the British Army, written in 1887 by a 41-year-old Irish composer named Robert "Ballyhooly Bob" Martin of Ross, for the Strand located Gaiety Theatre musical production "Miss Esmeralda", a burlesque production based on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
The parish is in the barony of Tulla. It is 20 miles (32 km) from Ennis and 87 miles (140 km) from Dublin. The name is said to be a corrupt form of Kill-da-Lua, and to be derived from the foundation of an abbey by St. Lua or Molua in the 6th century.
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin claimed this site as the birthplace or childhood home of Brian Boru (c. 941 – 1014), High King of Ireland 1002–14; as an adult he was based further south at Kincora (in modern Killaloe).
Killaloe is a parish in County Clare, Ireland, and part of the Scáth na Sionnaine grouping of parishes within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.. As of 2021, the co-parish priest is James Grace.
Killaloe Cathedral dates from the transition between the Romanesque and Gothic periods and was completed in 1225. The front is decorated with arabesque ornaments. [1] On the north side of the cathedral is a small oratory or chapel of a date earlier than the cathedral; and probably the original sanctuary of the holy man who founded the abbey.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards had a population of 2,410 living in 1,097 of its 1,559 total private dwellings, a change of -0.4% from its 2016 population of 2,420.
The Diocese of Killaloe (/ ˌ k ɪ l ə ˈ l uː / kil-ə-LOO; Irish: Deoise Chill Dalua) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly.