Place:Kilbegnet, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

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NameKilbegnet
TypeCivil parish
Located inCounty Galway, Republic of Ireland
Also located inCounty Roscommon, Republic of Ireland    
Contained Places
Townland
Leaha
source: Family History Library Catalog


Kilbegnet is also the name of a townland within the civil parish.

An unusually high number of people from Kilbegnet settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA, beginning in the 1840s. Many of them found work with the railroad.

A list of townlands in Kilbegnet Civil Parish can be found here [1].

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