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
Dún Darú | |
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Village | |
 Dunderrow cemetery | |
  Dunderrow Location in Ireland | |
| 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 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]
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References edit
- ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlements Dunderrow". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. 2016.
- ^ "Dún Darú / Dunderrow". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Joyce, Patrick Weston (1869). The origin and history of Irish names of places. p. 14.
- ^ "School History". dunderrowns.ie. Dunderrow National School. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ 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 [..]'
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Dunderrow". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Dublin: Lewis.
- ^ "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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