| Feature Type: | Community - An unincorporated populated place, generally with a population of 50 or more, and having a recognized central area that might contain a post office, store and/or community hall, etc, intended for the use of the general public in the region. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW side of Okanagan Lake at Norris Creek, SW of Vernon, Osoyoos Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°11'16"N, 119°29'52"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82L/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Killarney Beach (community) adopted 31 March 1982 on 82 L/4. Spelling corrected to Killiney Beach (community) 22 December 1986 on 82L/4. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Adjacent to the former Killiney steamer landing. "(At one time called Sprouls Landing) ....about 3 miles north of Shorts Point. Named after the Hill of Killiney, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland (his native place) by Harry Percy Hodges, settler here in 1903; previously bookkeeper at Coldstream Ranch; married Arabel M. Ricardo, sister of W. C. Ricardo. Died at Victoria, 1922." (12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, citing J. B. Weeks, N. H. Caesar, and Mrs. Hodges, Abbotsford.) Source: included with note |