Killarney is located 35 kilometres (22 mi) south-east of Warwick on the Condamine River on the Darling Downs. Killarney is located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the Queensland/New South Wales border. It is close to Queen Mary Falls in the Main Range National Park, where Spring Creek plunges 40 metres (130 ft) into the valley. The town was hit by a destructive tornado on Friday 22 November 1968, which destroyed many of the original buildings[The main street buildings that survived the storm: the Butter Factory, the Co-op Building, Mackenzie’s Emporium (now a St Vincent de Paul boutique), former Commercial Bank (opposite the Post Office), the Post Office and the Killarney Hotel. danielhickeymedia.com
The Killarney Hotel is in Willow St and is the third hotel to sit on this site. Killarney has many active community and sporting groups including the Killarney Area Promotion Association and the Killarney Cutters Rugby League club. The five waterfalls surrounding Killarney make this area a popular scenic destination, the Teviot Falls, Queens Mary Falls. Dagg's Falls, Browns Falls and Upper Brown's Falls. During wet weather there are two additional falls, Black Fella Falls and Jack Brunton's Falls, which can be seen tumbling down the cliffs surrounding Killarney at the bottom of the Cambanoora Gouge
A bit of history on the Historic Killarney Hotel in 1867-68 the Killarney Inn was opened, followed by the Royal Hotel, Killarney QLD January 1944 the Commonwealth Hotel, Killarney Qld 1952 (TROVE publications exert)
Music and Dancing.november1887 At the Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, an application by George Hoffman, of the Killarney Inn, Killarney for permission to have music and dancing in his
licensed public house on the 11th and 12th inst., was considered. When the application was read, the Police Magistrate asked: What is on at Killarney? Sergeant Kelly: Nothing, your worship. Some discussion took place as
to the advisableness of allowing the application, considering that there was no holiday. The Police Magistrate said he would not object to the application provided there was a holiday, but there was none. In any case, he could
only grant the application till eleven o'clock p.m., when the bar would have to be closed, He would not have the slightest objection to dancing in a private room, so long as it was respectably conducted. The application was
at length granted till eleven o’clock.
Killarney and the pub and water falls is a destination town "this is Australia" at its best
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