Knock (Irish: An Cnoc) is a village in County Clare, Ireland. The village is located at the northern banks of the Clonderalaw Bay, a bay connected with the ShannonШУУД ҮЗЭХ and
Knock (Irish: An Cnoc) is a village in County Clare, Ireland. The village is located at the northern banks of the Clonderalaw Bay, a bay connected with the Shannon, and the R486 is passing through the village. According to the geographer Samuel Lewis the parish counted 180 inhabitants in 1837. The Census 2006 showed ongoing depopulating, returning 228 inhabitants for Knock, compared with 252 inhabitants in 2002 The river Crompaun which enters the Shannon near Knock, was the subject of questions in the Dáil Éireann in 1949. Problem was that 14 sluices had broken down. The Commissioners of Public Works was not responsible for the repair, according to minister Michael Donnelan. The fate of the sluices is unknown. Ellen Hanley – The unfortunate subject of the play The Colleen Bawn. After being murdered by her husband, she washed up nearby and was buried in Burrane Cemetery near Knock. Knock (Irish: An Cnoc, meaning The Hill – but now more generally known in Irish as Cnoc Mhuire, "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. Its notability is derived from the Knock Shrine, at which the Virgin Mary, together with Saint Joseph and John the Evangelist, supposedly appeared on 21 August 1879. In the 20th century Knock became one of Europe's major Catholic Marian shrines, alongside Lourdes and Fatima. One and a half million pilgrims visit Knock Shrine annually. Pope John Paul II, a supporter of devotion to the Virgin Mary, visited Knock in 1979 to commemorate the centenary of the apparition.
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