Dunderrow Explained

Dunderrow
Native Name:Irish: Dún Darú
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
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2016
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population:208
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:51.7278°N -8.5936°W
Blank Name:Irish Grid Reference

Dunderrow [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. It commenced operations in 1981.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sapmap Area: Settlements Dunderrow . Central Statistics Office . Census 2016 . 2016 .
  2. Web site: Placenames Database of Ireland . logainm.ie . Dún Darú / Dunderrow . 1 November 2021 .
  3. Book: Joyce, Patrick Weston . Patrick Weston Joyce . 1869 . The origin and history of Irish names of places . 14.
  4. Web site: School History . Dunderrow National School . dunderrowns.ie . 1 November 2021 .
  5. Book: Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork . Government Stationery Office . 1994 . Dublin . 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. Book: Lewis, Samuel . https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/D/Dunderrow-East-Muskerry-Cork.php . Dunderrow . . Lewis . Dublin . 1837 .
  7. Web site: Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly wins company of the year award . Irish Examiner . irishexaminer.com . 2 February 2009 . 1 November 2021 . The US firm has been operating its biotechnology facility in Dunderrow, Kinsale, since 1981 .