Kildorrery

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 2006 213 inhabitants in the census year.

Geography

Kildorrery is located on a hill in a glacially influenced landscape between the Ballyhoura Mountains in the south of County Limerick and the Nagle Mountains beyond the Blackwater Valley. In the east, the Galtee Mountains and the Knockmealdown Mountains are the Slievenamon (719 m ) apart in County Tipperary. The road to Limerick performs a level between the cast and the Legal Carrigeenamronety ( Carraigín na mBróinte ). In the West, in County Kerry, the Paps of Anu lie.

History

The location of Kildorrery had a special strategic importance since ancient times. Parts of a prehistoric boundary condition, which is now called The Black Ditch (the black trench ), could be excavated. This trench could be one of territorial borders in Ireland have shown and dates from the 3rd century BC It stretches between Shannon and Youghal.

The three circular walls in the area indicate a prehistoric settlement.

Economy and population

The economy Kildorrerys is dominated by agriculture and horticulture. One of the largest employers was founded in 1887 by brothers Charles and Leonard Gates dairy the West Surrey Central Dairy Company, which was renamed in 1920 after the brand of their baby milk in Cow & Gate and is now part of Danone.

The exodus of the rural population to the cities could be in recent years, offset by immigrants from Eastern Europe, particularly from the Ukraine and the Baltic States.

1977 a new school was built at the Fermoy Road. It replaced the two-class old school, which was founded in 1847 at the height of the Great Famine in Ireland as Scart National School.

Traffic

Kildorrery is located on the National Secondary Road N73 from Mallow by Mitchelstown at the intersection with the regional road R512 from Kilmallock after Fermoy.

Personalities

• Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), novelist, spent the summer as a child in the estate Bowen 's Court in Kildorrery, she is buried in the cemetery located near the property