Abbeydorney ()
is a village in
County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae ChiarraÃ) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the co ...
,
Ireland. Located north of the county town of
Tralee, the village had a population of 418 as of the
2016 census of Ireland
''Census 2016'' in the Republic of Ireland was held on Sunday, 24 April 2016, to administer a national census. It was organised by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and reported a total population of 4,761,865, or a 3.8% increase since the pri ...
.
Abbeydorney falls within the civil parish of O'Dorney.
History
Abbey
The name of the village derives from the translation of the
Irish Mainistir Ó dTorna - in English O'Dorney Abbey - which was the
Cistercian Order Abbeydorney Abbey, established in
1154
Year 1154 ( MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
* April 18 – Nur al-Din, Seljuk ruler (''atabeg'') of Aleppo, encamps before Damascus ...
and located north of the village. The abbey is often called Kyrie Eleison (which is
Greek for ''Lord, have mercy''). It was
suppressed in 1537 during the reign of
King Henry VIII of England.
Village
The village that developed around the abbey is of an agrarian nature and the institutions that have developed reflect this. In 1885, Abbeydorney
GAA club was established, and in 1895 Abbeydorney
Co-operative Dairy Society was formed. In 1920, during the
War of Independence, the village creamery and a number of houses were burned to the ground by RIC
Auxiliaries and
Black and Tans in a reprisal attack.
Transport
Abbeydorney railway station
Abbeydorney railway station served the village of Abbeydorney in County Kerry, Ireland.
The station opened on 20 December 1880. The first Station Master appointed to Abbeydorney was a Mr John Hogan, a descendant of the Galloping O'Hogans of Li ...
serving the village opened on 20 December 1880 on the line from
Tralee to
Limerick via
Listowel
Listowel ( ; , IPA: ˆlʲɪsË ËˆtÌªË uÉ™hÉ™lʲ is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the Central Statistics Of ...
. Passenger services were withdrawn on 4 February 1963, although the route through Abbeydorney continued to be used by freight trains for a while before the line to Listowel was finally closed altogether in 1977 and then to Tralee 1978. The station closed on 6 February 1978.
Sport
The local Abbeydorney hurling team have won four County Championships, the last in 1974, and in more recent times their minor teams have won the minor county championship in 1999 and again in 2008.
The Abbeydorney Ladies Football Club was the feeding ground for the great Kerry Ladies teams of the 1980s and 1990s. In more recent years they secured back-to-back All-Irelands. They won the Junior All-Ireland Club title in 2004 and followed that a year later in 2005 by winning the All-Ireland Intermediate Club title.
Common surnames
According to Irish census of 1901 and 1911, common names in the area at the time included: Sullivan, Connor, Stack, Walsh, Shanahan, Buckley, Fitzgerald, Lawlor, Dowling, Glavin, McCarthy, Slattery, Brosnan, Hayes, Lynch, Moriarty, O'Connor, O'Leary, Lovett, Mahony, Maunsell, Murphy, Brennan, Cronin, Nolan, Sheehan, and Sheehy.
Notable people
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Amelia Wilmot
Amelia Wilmot (18741955), was a revolutionary and spy during the Irish War of Independence. She was a member of Cumann na mBan in County Kerry
Biography Early life
Amelia Canty was born in 1874 to John Canty, a blacksmith, in Lyracrumpane, nea ...
, member of Cumann na mBan and spy during the Irish War of Independence
See also
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List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
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Towns and villages in County Kerry