Killowen
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Killowen Cill Eoin |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 ′ N , 6 ° 11 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 230 (as of 2011) | ||
| surface | 0.163 km² (0.06 mi² ) | ||
| Population density: | 1411 inhabitants per km² | ||
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| Post town | Rostrevor | ||
| Part of the country | Northern Ireland | ||
| region | GB-DOW | ||
| Shire county | County Down | ||
| District | Newry, Morne and Down | ||
Killowen ( Irish : Cill Eoin ; German : "Church of Eoghain") is a place in the District of Newry, Morne and Down in Northern Ireland . It is near Rostrevor and on the banks of Carlingford Lough. In 2011 the place had 230 inhabitants.
history
Ballinran's Court Tomb , known in the region as Giant's Grave , is located near Killowen, on the shores of the lake . It was discovered and uncovered in 1976 before the road was widened.
Killowen was formerly determined by smallholders and fishermen and was described in The Picturesque Handbook to Carlingford Bay (1846) as "The nursery of the seamen who manage the Newry Merchant Navy".
Personalities
- Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen was a 19th century statesman and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . When he was raised to the nobility, he chose his title after the townland of Killowen, where he grew up. Born in Newry in 1832 , the family soon moved to Seafield in Killowen. He entered the legal profession and practiced as a lawyer in Newry for a period. He later moved to England and became Attorney General in 1886. In 1894 he became Lord Chief Justice and died in 1900.
- Irish giant Patrick Murphy was from Killowen. He traveled to England when he was about seventeen or eighteen years old and got a job in the Liverpool docks as a laborer. Before he was twenty years old, he was "eight feet and an inch tall and weighed twenty stones." He traveled through Europe and returned to his home village as a "highly qualified gentleman". He bought a small property in Killowen, which he left a short time later for another tour of Europe. During his stay in Marseille , he contracted smallpox and died at the age of 26.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census 2011 at citypopulation.de, accessed on May 28, 2019.
- ↑ Killowen at logainm.ie, accessed on May 28, 2019.