Crecora
Crecora
Craobh Chomhartha | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Crecora post office | |
  Crecora Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°34′29″N 8°40′5″W / 52.57472°N 8.66806°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Limerick |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | R547472 |
Crecora (/ˈkrɛkoʊrə/; Irish: Craobh Chomhartha, meaning 'tree of (the) sign')[1] is a village in County Limerick, Ireland, 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Limerick city centre (15 km by road). The village is partly in a civil parish of the same name.[1]
The small village has a school, the club grounds of Crecora/Manister GAA, a post office and a Roman Catholic church. This church, Saints Peter and Paul's church, was built in 1864 and is in the parish of Mungret, Crecora and Raheen within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limerick.[2][3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Crecora / Craobh Chomhartha". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ↑ "Saints Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Skehanagh, Crecora, County Limerick". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ↑ "Crecora Church". mcrparish.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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