Killeter
title: "Killeter" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-county-tyrone", "1844-in-ireland"] topic_path: "geography/ireland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killeter" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Killeter |
| irish_name | Coill Íochtair |
| static_image_name | Killeter Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 390225.jpg |
| static_image_caption | Killeter Bridge |
| map_type | Northern Ireland |
| coordinates | |
| population | 93 |
| population_ref | (2021 census) |
| irish_grid_reference | H240806 |
| unitary_northern_ireland | Strabane |
| country | Northern Ireland |
| post_town | CASTLEDERG |
| postcode_area | BT |
| postcode_district | BT81 |
| dial_code | 028, +44 28 |
| constituency_westminster | West Tyrone |
| constituency_ni_assembly | West Tyrone |
| lieutenancy_northern_ireland | County Tyrone |
| hide_services | yes |
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Killeter () is a small village and townland near Castlederg in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. In the 2021 census it had a population of 93.
Killeter has a yearly August fair, which "celebrates the diversity and richness of rural life". The village itself sits along an ancient pilgrimage trail which winds its way to Lough Derg. The national cycle network traverses part of this trail, which is bounded to the west by Killeter Forest.
The writer Benedict Kiely has stated that he based the fictional village of Carmincross, in his novel Nothing Happens in Carmincross, on Killeter.
History
Near Killeter is the Magherakeel () ecclesiastical site. This site contains a holy well, lime kiln and ruins of a 6th century church.
On 29 April 1844, a shower of meteoric stones fell, in the sight of several people, at Killeter. They were broken into small fragments and only one piece was found whole.
Killeter, plus the rural protrusion of Tyrone to its immediate west, would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.
References
References
- [http://www.logainm.ie/64875.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]
- "Placenames NI".
- "Killeter (Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)".
- Afterword to ''Proxopera: A Tale of Modern Ireland'' (Godine, 1989)
- "Magherakeel".
- "Destinations - UK - Ireland". Touring Tyrone.
- (1925). "Irish Boundary Commission Report". National Archives.
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