Drimoleague Explained

Drimoleague should not be confused with Timoleague.

Drimoleague
Native Name:Irish: Droim Dhá Liag
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:County Cork
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Skibbereen
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2022
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population:486
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:51.6597°N -9.2608°W
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Drimoleague (historically Drumdalege,)[2] is a village on the R586 road at its junction with the R593 in County Cork, Ireland. It lies roughly halfway between the towns of Dunmanway and Bantry, within the civil parish of Dromdaleague. As of the 2022 census of Ireland, Drimoleague had 486 residents.[1]

History

Drimoleague is located in West Cork in the townlands of Baurnahulla and Dromdaleague.[2] [3] Evidence of ancient settlement within these townlands includes a number of ecclesiastical, souterrain, holy well and fulacht fia sites.[4] Other archaeological sites include the Clodagh Standing Stones, a Stone Age site, which lies to the northeast. Castle Donovan, a ruined Irish tower house, is situated approximately to the north.[5]

Drimoleague is the start for one of the five Pilgrim Paths of Ireland, St. Finbar's Pilgrim Path, which ends 35-kilometers away in Gougane Barra.[6] The village's Anglican (Church of Ireland) church was built in 1790,[5] and is now in ruin.[4] The local Methodist church was built .[7] In 1956, a new Catholic church was completed on the site of an older church.[8] Designed by architect Frank Murphy, it is credited as being West Cork's first building in the modernist style.[9]

Drimoleague railway station opened in 1877 on the Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway line.[10] It closed in the early 1960s.[11]

The TV series Holding, based on the similarly titled book by Graham Norton, was filmed in the village and surrounding area in 2021.[12]

Amenities

Local amenities include four public houses, a pitch & putt course, tennis courts, and a children's playground. The local national (primary) school, Drimoleague National School, had an enrollment of 59 pupils as of 2021.[13] Clann na nGael GAA club has facilities at Páirc Tadhg Na Samhna in Drimoleague.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Census 2022 - Census Mapping - Towns: Drimoleague - Population Snapshot . Central Statistics Office . visual.cso.ie . 25 April 2024 .
  2. Web site: Drom Dhá Liag / Drimoleague (see archival records). Placenames Database of Ireland . logainm.ie . 15 April 2022 .
  3. Book: . 1816 . Edinburgh . John Brown . 7 . 2 . 495 . DRI . https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002025948w&view=1up&seq=607 .
  4. Book: Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork . Dublin . Stationery Office . 1992 . CO119-084---- [..] Holy well [..] BAURNAHULLA / CO119-064---- [..] Souterrain [..] DROMDALEAGUE / CO119-065---- [..] Fulacht fia [..] DROMDALEAGUE / CO119-063001- [..] Graveyard [..] DROMDALEAGUE [..] Rectangular graveyard on S-facing slope overlooking Drimoleague. Headstones date from early 19th century to present day. Souterrain (CO119-063002-) in NW corner. Remains of church (CO119-063003-), on site of earlier church (CO119-101---) .
  5. Book: Lewis, Samuel . https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/D/Dromdaleague-West-Carbery-Cork.php. Dromdaleague, or Drimoleague . . Lewis . 1837.
  6. Web site: St Finbarr's Pilgrim Path, Cork. Pilgrim Paths of Ireland. 3 June 2019. In West Cork and South Kerry the practice of walking pilgrim paths to St Finbarr's hermitage in Gougane Barra has been in place for many centuries. One such path leads from Drimoleague, where – local tradition has it – St Finbarr arrived at the Top of the Rock in the sixth century and admonished the people to return to Christ, before making his way to Gougane Barra..
  7. Web site: Drimoleague Methodist Church, Dromdaleague, Drimoleague, Cork . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . buildingsofireland.ie . 15 April 2022 .
  8. Web site: All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Dromdaleague, Drimoleague, Cork . National Inventory of Architectural Heritage . buildingsofireland.ie . 15 April 2022 .
  9. News: English . Conor . Cork architect the unsung hero of modernism. 21 July 2018 . . 31 May 2021.
  10. Web site: Drimoleague . eiretrains.com . 15 April 2022 .
  11. Web site: Drimoleague . Railscot - Irish Railways . 2012-05-07.
  12. Web site: Neville . Steve . 2022-02-19 . Holding: West Cork on show as first trailer for series based on Graham Norton's book released . 2022-04-14 . Irish Examiner . en.
  13. Web site: Dromdhallagh N S . Department of Education . gov.ie . Last updated on 7 September 2021 [..] Local Name Of School: Drimoleague National School [..] Enrolment Total: 59 . 15 April 2022 .
  14. Web site: Club Profile - Clann Na NGael . gaacork.ie . 15 April 2022 .

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