Keenagh

{{short description|Village in County Longford, Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Keenagh |native_name = {{Irish place name|Caonach}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = Image:Keenagh3912.jpg |image_caption = Main Street (R397) with clock tower, 2007 |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Leinster |subdivision_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Longford |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = 2016 |population_total = 581 |population_footnotes = <ref name="cso2016">{{cite web|url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=E3047948-389F-4F44-A3A5-B843AFAD496D | publisher = Central Statistics Office | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Keenagh | date = April 2016 | access-date = 2 February 2020 }}</ref> |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = WET |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = IST (WEST) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = {{coord|53.623458|-7.816086|dim:100000_region:IE|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = {{iem4ibx|N125638}} |website = |footnotes = }} '''Keenagh''' or '''Kenagh''' ({{Irish place name|Caonach|mossy place}})<ref>{{cite book | author = A. D. Mills | date = 2003 | title = A Dictionary of British Place-Names | publisher = Oxford University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/1412197.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Caonach / Keenagh (see archival records) | access-date = 2 February 2020}}</ref> is a village in County Longford, Ireland. {{convert|14|km|0|abbr=on}} south of Longford town, it is on the R397 near the Royal Canal.

The village has two churches (Catholic and Church of Ireland), a couple of shops and three pubs. There are also GAA and soccer clubs in the village, as well as a community centre.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age trackway near the village.

The Newcomen Baronets were the local landowners for several generations.

In the period 2000 to 2007 many new houses were built around Keenagh, due to the tax incentives available in the area and without direct consideration to demand. As of 2010, many were vacant or incomplete constituting ghost estates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/local/voices_from_the_ghost_estates_1_1958836 |title= Voices from the ghost estates | publisher = Longford Leader | date = 21 April 2010 |access-date=2011-09-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321093747/http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/local/voices_from_the_ghost_estates_1_1958836 |archive-date=2012-03-21 }}</ref> Between the 2002 and 2016 census, the population of Keenagh more than doubled from 225 to 581 inhabitants.<ref name="cso2016"/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/longford/0508__keenagh/ | publisher = | website = City Population | title = Keenagh (Ireland) Census Town | date = | access-date = 2 February 2020 }}</ref>

==See also== * List of towns and villages in Ireland * Keenagh, Templeport, a townland in the parish of Templeport, County Cavan

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Category:Towns and villages in County Longford