Killaloe, Queensland

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I just had a message from a cousin who is visiting Killaloe, Queensland - for location see
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Killa ... a=prev&z=7

I presume the Australian Killaloe is named after Killaloe, co. Clare, but a preliminary search has failed to come up with any explanation of the link. Perhaps one of the Australian contributors to this forum knows the full story.

I did find a reference to a Killaloe Cottage on the other side of the continent, in Robe, South Australia:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/31826475 and http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/31827313
The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889)
< Tuesday 4 August 1863 >
< Page 2 of 4 >
and repeated on
< Thursday 27 August 1863 >
< Page 7 of 8 >
BIRTHS. BIRMINGHAM.—At Robe Town, Guichen Bay, the wife of Mr. W. Birmingham, Killaloe Cottage, Commercial- road, of a son.

Newspaper references to Killaloe, Queensland date back to a gold find in 1896: see
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/resul ... e+norseman