Knockananna (Irish: Cnoc an Eanaigh, meaning 'hill of the marsh')[2] is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland.
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Knockananna
Cnoc an Eanaigh | |
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Knockananna Location in Ireland | |
Coordinates: 52°52′26″N 6°29′35″W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Leinster |
County | County Wicklow |
Elevation | 205 m (673 ft) |
Population (2016)[1] | 143 |
Irish Grid Reference | T010814 |
Knockananna lies close to the border between County Wicklow and County Carlow. The village is the centre of a dispersed farming area, 2km to the north-west of Moyne and the Wicklow Way. There is a grocery shop and a pub in the village. The village has a GAA team and the club colours are red and white.
Colonel Commandant Tom Kehoe (Free State Forces) was born in the area in 1899. He was a member of Michael Collins's assassination Squad, which killed a number of British agents on 21 November 1920. Kehoe himself died from severe wounds he received while attempting to remove a booby trapped land mine during the civil war in Macroom in September 1922.
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