Dunderrow
Dún Darú | |
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Village | |
![]() Dunderrow cemetery | |
Coordinates: 51°43′40″N 08°35′37″W / 51.72778°N 8.59361°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Munster |
County | County Cork |
Population | 208 |
Time zone | UTC+0 ( WET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC-1 ( IST ( WEST)) |
Irish Grid Reference | W590529 |
Dunderrow ( Irish: Dún Darú, meaning 'oak fort') [2] is a small village in County Cork, Ireland 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]
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]
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 [..]'
The US firm has been operating its biotechnology facility in Dunderrow, Kinsale, since 1981
Dunderrow
Dún Darú | |
---|---|
Village | |
![]() Dunderrow cemetery | |
Coordinates: 51°43′40″N 08°35′37″W / 51.72778°N 8.59361°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Munster |
County | County Cork |
Population | 208 |
Time zone | UTC+0 ( WET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC-1 ( IST ( WEST)) |
Irish Grid Reference | W590529 |
Dunderrow ( Irish: Dún Darú, meaning 'oak fort') [2] is a small village in County Cork, Ireland 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]
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]
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 [..]'
The US firm has been operating its biotechnology facility in Dunderrow, Kinsale, since 1981