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    village in County Mayo, Ireland. Knock is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Costello. It is notable as the location of Knock Shrine - a Marian...
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    international airport 5.6 km (3.48 mi) south-west of Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland. The village of Knock is 20 km (12.43 mi) away. 818,000 passengers used the...
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    Lady of Knock, commonly referred to as Knock Shrine, is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site and national shrine in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland...
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    County Mayo (/ˈmeɪoʊ/; from Irish Maigh Eo, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning 'Plain of the yew trees') is a county in Ireland. In the West of Ireland, in the...
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    James Horan (monsignor) (category Knock, County Mayo)
    County Mayo, Ireland, was a parish priest of Knock, County Mayo. He is most widely known for his successful campaign to bring an airport to Knock, his...
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    basilica church of the Latin Church located in the small town of Knock, in County Mayo in Ireland. It was designed in modern architecture style with concrete...
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  • townland in County Armagh Knock, County Clare, village in County Clare Knock, County Mayo, village in County Mayo Knock Shrine, a major Roman Catholic pilgrimage...
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  • funeral services.[citation needed] The song tells of the story of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland, where there was an apparition of the Virgin Mary, Saint...
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  • Peter Burke (Gaelic footballer) (category People from Knock, County Mayo)
    level, he is a nephew of former Mayo goalkeeper Eugene Lavin. He is originally from the townland of Cloondace (near Knock), is married with children and...
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    Cuilmore, County Mayo — Pollremon, County Galway R328 road     Ballindine, County Mayo — Moylough, County Galway R329 road     Knock, County Mayo (Part Old...
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  • famine months, most famously a Marian apparition at a church in Knock, County Mayo. Knock developed as Ireland's internationally known Marian shrine in...
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    Thomas J. O'Connell (category People from Knock, County Mayo)
    1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957. Thomas Joseph O'Connell was born near Knock, County Mayo, the second child of Maria Biesty and Thomas Connell. As part of the...
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    Visit by Pope Francis to Ireland (category Knock, County Mayo)
    the visit, Pope Francis was flown to Ireland West Airport in County Mayo and visited Knock Shrine. Traffic tailbacks of up to eight kilometres around the...
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    112 league and championship games for Mayo between 1961–1974. Henry Gerard Byrne, born in 1951 in Knock, County Mayo, was an officer in the Gardaí. Byrne...
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  • Mary Byrne (witness) (category People from County Mayo)
    Irish woman considered to be the chief witness of the apparition at Knock, County Mayo. Mary Byrne was born in 1850, the eldest daughter of the three children...
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  • Enda McDonagh (category Christian clergy from County Mayo)
    President of Ireland. McDonagh was born in Bekan, near Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, on 27 June 1930. He was only one of three in his primary class of 24...
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  • Saint Kevin Máméan, Maumturk Mountains, County Galway, associated with Saint Patrick Knock Shrine, Knock, County Mayo, site of an 1879 apparition of the Virgin...
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  • Bridget Trench (category People from County Mayo)
    Ní Thrinsigh, c. 1804 – 1886) was an Irish religious visionary at Knock, County Mayo. She was the oldest person who witnessed the Marian apparition. Trench...
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    Tommy Fleming (musician) (category Musicians from County Sligo)
    On 12 December 2004, Fleming recorded a concert at Knock Shrine Basilica in Knock, County Mayo. This building has a capacity of 5,000 and had been host...
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    Ireland West Airport Knock, Kilgariff, Charlestown, Co. Mayo.. note also there are multiple townlands named Kilgariff in County Mayo and this one has been...
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    Visit by Pope John Paul II to Ireland (category Knock, County Mayo)
    I love you". That afternoon, he travelled by helicopter to Knock Shrine in County Mayo which he described as "the goal of my journey to Ireland". The...
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  • Derry Belfast Belfast City Cork Donegal Dublin Kerry Knock Shannon Connemara Inishmaan Inishmore Inisheer This is a list of airports, airfields and aerodromes...
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  • Joseph Cunnane (category People from Knock, County Mayo)
    the Archbishop of Tuam from 1969 to 1987. Born in the parish of Knock in County Mayo, he was educated at St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, and St. Patrick’s...
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  • Keel Kilkelly Killala Kilmaine Kilmovee Kiltimagh Knockmore Knock Lahardane Louisburgh Mayo Mulranny Murrisk Newport Partry Pollagh Pontoon Portacloy Porturlin...
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  • John Carty (Irish politician) (category People from Knock, County Mayo)
    Senator from 2007 to 2011. From Knock, County Mayo, Carty was elected at the 1999 local elections as a member of Mayo County Council for the Claremorris electoral...
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  • Nollaig Ó Muraíle (category People from Knock, County Mayo)
    He was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009. A native of Knock, County Mayo, Ó Muraíle attended National University of Ireland, Maynooth where...
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    known as Newport-Pratt, is a small town in the barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo, Ireland. The population was 626 in 2016. It is located on the west coast...
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    Bekan or Becan (Irish: Béacán) is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Because of the almost entirely rural population, it is traditionally a farming community...
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  • Cathedral, Cologne Mount Athos Knock Shrine (the minor basilica of Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland, Knock, County Mayo) Shrine of the Holy House of...
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  • Diarmaid Ó Cúlacháin (category People from County Mayo)
    associated with two successive coarbs or erenaghs of Aughagower, and Knock, County Mayo. The Annals of Lough Ce give him the following obituary: Diarmaid...
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