Kilbricken
Kilbrickan
Cill Bhriocáin | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 The Kilbricken Inn | |
  Kilbrickan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°57′42″N 7°27′44″W / 52.961793°N 7.462103°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Laois |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
Kilbricken, officially Kilbrickan (Irish: Cill Bhriocáin, meaning 'Briocán's church'),[1] is a hamlet in County Laois, Ireland, on the Dublin-Cork railway line.
Mountrath & Castletown railway station opened at Kilbricken on 1 September 1848. It was part of the Great Southern and Western Railway in Ireland and was used for 127 years before being closed for goods traffic on 3 November 1975 and finally closed altogether by the CIÉ on 6 September 1976.[2] The station is no longer served and the station buildings are now privately owned. Although derelict, the stone built station can still be seen standing along this track.
Notable people
[edit]Victoria Cross winner James Bergin was from Kilbricken.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Cill Bhriocáin/Kilbrickan". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "Mountrath and Castletown station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 18 November 2007.
