Dunderrow

Dunderrow
Dún Darú
Village
Dunderrow cemetery
Dunderrow cemetery
Dunderrow is located in Ireland
Dunderrow
Dunderrow
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°43′40″N 08°35′37″W / 51.72778°N 8.59361°W / 51.72778; -8.59361
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Cork
Population
 (2016)[1]
208
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceW590529

Dunderrow (Irish: Dún Darú, meaning 'oak fort')[2] is a small village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the R605 road between Innishannon and Kinsale. Dún Darú, anglicised as Dunderrow, means the fort of the oak-plain, with the site of the fort (dún) for which it is named located to the south of the village.[3] The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[2]

Dunderrow National School, in the centre of the village, was built in 2000 to replace an earlier 19th century building.[4] To the east of the village is Dunderrow cemetery, formerly the site of a 19th-century Church of Ireland church (no longer standing).[5][6]

An Eli Lilly facility is situated near Dunderrow on 112 acres of land.[citation needed] It commenced operations in 1981.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlements Dunderrow". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Dún Darú / Dunderrow". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  3. ^ Joyce, Patrick Weston (1869). The origin and history of Irish names of places. p. 14.
  4. ^ "School History". dunderrowns.ie. Dunderrow National School. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  5. ^ Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork. Dublin: Government Stationery Office. 1994. N side of Dunderrow crossroads; circular graveyard [..] No longer any visible trace of C of I church erected here [..] and described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 572) as 'a small handsome edifice [..]'
  6. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Dunderrow". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Dublin: Lewis.
  7. ^ "Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly wins company of the year award". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 2 February 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2021. The US firm has been operating its biotechnology facility in Dunderrow, Kinsale, since 1981


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