Abbeyfeale
Abbeyfeale ( Irish : Mainistir na Féile, German: "Abtei am Feale") is a town in County Limerick in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland .
The place
Abbeyfeale is a market town with 2544 inhabitants (2011) in the far west of County Limerick on the banks of the River Feale , on the border with County Kerry at 127 m altitude in the foothills of the Mullaghareirk Mountains.
The town's market square, which is now dominated by a statue, used to be the Abbeyfeale Abbey , founded in 1188 , of which only a few remains in the masonry of the Catholic church built in 1847 have survived. The above-mentioned statue shows Father William Casey, the priest in the local Parish from 1883 to 1907, who supported the tenant farmers in their fight against the landlords .
A current urban development plan for Abbeyfeale already resulted in the construction of the first new street in the village since 1880.
In Abbeyfeale there is a branch of the German Kostal Group .
Transport links
Abbeyfeale is located between Newcastle West and Castleisland on the N21 national road which leads into County Kerry from Limerick City . With Listowel in Kerry Abbeyfeale is connected by a regional road, with Newcastle West in the northeast and Listowel in the northwest direction are each about 20 km from Abbeyfeale.
Sons of Abbeyfeales
- Michael J. O'Kelly (1915–1982), prehistoric scientist
- Michael Lenihan (* 1951), priest and bishop of La Ceiba in Honduras
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly) ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 53 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 9 ″ W.