Kildorrery
 
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Kildorrery ( Irish : Cill Dairbhre , "oak forest church") is a village in the north of County Cork in the province of Munster in Ireland . Kildorrery had 213 residents at the 2006 census.
geography
Kildorrery is located on a hill in the middle of a glacial landscape between the Ballyhoura Mountains in the south of County Limerick and the Nagle Mountains beyond the Blackwater Valley . To the east are the Galtee Mountains and the Knockmealdown Mountains with the Slievenamon (719 m) some distance away in County Tipperary . The road to Limerick runs through a plain between the Castlegale and the Carrigeenamronety ( Carraigín na mBróinte ). To the west, in County Kerry, are the Paps of Anu .
history
The location of Kildorrery has always been of particular strategic importance. Parts of a prehistoric border fortification, which is now called The Black Ditch , were excavated. This moat may have represented one of the territorial boundaries in Ireland and dates from the 3rd century BC. It extends between Shannon and Youghal .
The three ring walls in the area indicate a prehistoric settlement.
In the Middle Ages, the area around Kildorrery was the scene of the disputes between the later High King Brian Boru and local princes and the Danish Vikings for supremacy.
Economy and population
The economy of Kildorrerys is characterized by agriculture and horticulture . One of the largest employers was the West Surrey Dairy Central Company , founded in 1887 by the brothers Charles and Leonard Gates, renamed Cow & Gate in 1920 after the brand of their baby milk and now part of Danone .
The migration of the rural population to the cities has been offset in recent years by immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially from Ukraine and the Baltic states .
In 1977 a new school was built on Fermoy Road. It replaced the two-class old school that had been founded as Scart National School in 1847 at the height of the Great Famine in Ireland .
traffic
Kildorrery is on the National Secondary Road N73 from Mallow to Mitchelstown at the junction with the regional road R512 from Kilmallock to Fermoy .
Personalities
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), writer, spent the summers as a child at Bowen's Court in Kildorrery, she is buried in the nearby cemetery
Web links
- Historical Society of Kildorrery
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Kildorrerys ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the site of the Historical Society
- ↑ History of Cow & Gate
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ N , 8 ° 26 ′ W