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Kilmaine
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Mayo
- Elevation
- 59
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Kilmaine Old Church South East View 2010 09 17.jpg
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- Kilmaine
- Irish Grid Reference
- M260598
- historic county
- County Mayo
- native label
- Cill Mheáin
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Kilmaine or Kilmain () is a village in County Mayo, Ireland.
==Village== thumb|Old church of Kilmaine with a 16th-century tracery window on the site of an early Christian monastery which, according to tradition, has been founded by Saint Patrick|St. Patrick. It became a prebendary church of [[Tuam.]] "Kilmaine", derived from the Irish language 'Cill Mheán', means The Middle Church – 'Cill' is the word used in the Irish language for a church, and 'meán' is the Irish word for middle. The village is located on the N84 road between Shrule and Ballinrobe. The hinterland is entirely rural, made up of farms and scattered houses. The nearest town is Ballinrobe, and the closest city is Galway, roughly 40 kilometers (24 miles) away.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilmaine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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