Kilcoo

Kilcoo is a small village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between Rathfriland and Castlewellan and is within the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council area. The village is on the A25 Dublin Road south-west of Castlewellan. Kilcoo had a population 1415 people in the 2001 Census.

Places of interest

Near Kilcoo is Lough Island Reavy, a small man-made lough. East of the lough is Drumena Cashel, a stone ringfort that was used in the Early Christian period.

Saint Malachy's Primary School is a mixed gender school for students between the age of 4 and 11. It was opened in September 1970.

Kilcoo is classified as a rural settlement by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency . Kilcoo is named as Tollymore Ward SOA 1 as the data contains the village itself and surrounding townlands of the village. On Census day there were 1415 people living in the Kilcoo area. Of these:

29.6% were under 16 years old and 12.2% were aged 60 and above
53.1% of the population were male and 46.9% were female
99.6% were from a Catholic Community Background and 0.4% were from a 'Protestant and Other Christian ' Community Background.
1.1% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.
Civil parish of Kilcoo

The civil parish is mainly in the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half with one townland in Iveagh Upper, Upper Half.

The civil parish contains the following townlands: