🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Killeigh Heritage Walk

📍 Offaly🚶 5 stops🚶️ 0.93km⌛ ~25 min

A church built in 1644 over a twelfth-century Augustinian priory, the scant remains of a Franciscan friary founded by O'Connor Faly in 1293, one of the 'seven blessed wells of Killeigh,' a famine-era graveyard with its demolished church's tiles still underfoot, and a statue to a champion racing greyhound born in the village. Looking for things to do in Killeigh? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Killeigh Church
  2. Killeigh Franciscan Friary (remains)
  3. St Sinchell's Holy Well & Rag Tree
  4. St Patrick's Famine Graveyard & Gates
  5. Mick the Miller Statue

For Schools

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