Adrigole
| Adrigole Irish: Eadargóil | |
| County Cork | |
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 Coast of Adrigole | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | V814511 |
| Location: | 51°42’0"N, 9°43’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 452 (2016) |
| Local Government | |
Adrigole is a village on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork. It is centred on the junction of the R572 and R574 regional roads, with a sparsely distributed population of about 450 people.
The name of the village is from the Irish Eadargóil meaning 'between two inlets'[1]
Adrigole is a scattered village strung approximately five and half miles along the north-western shore of Bantry Bay on the scenic south coast of the Beara Peninsula. Looming over it is Hungry Hill (2,253 feet) with two rock-girt lakes which feed a cascade. Hungry Hill is the highest of the Caha range which forms the spine of the peninsula, and gave its name to Daphne du Maurier's novel about the local copper-mining barons of the 19th century. There is also Adrigole Mountain and the Healy Pass nearby.
Amenities and economy
The main industries in the area are fishing, farming, and tourism. The village has a shop, which also offers limited postal services.[2] There are also two pubs and a Roman Catholic parish church.
In literature
In the last week of March 1927 Daniel O'Sullivan, his wife and two of his children were found dead in their home at Clashduff, Adrigole. They had starved to death.[3] This inspired Peadar O'Donnell to write his play Adrigoole, with the setting moved to County Donegal.[4]
Sport
- Gaelic sports: Adrigole GFC
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Adrigole) |
References
- ↑ "Eadargóil/Adrigole". https://www.logainm.ie/en/1412693.
- ↑ "West Cork Sailing Cruising Adventures". http://www.westcorksailing.com/adrigole.htm.
- ↑ J. Anthony Gaughan (1983). A Political Odyssey: Thomas O'Donnell, M.P. for West Kerry, 1900-1918. Kingdom Books. p. 171.
- ↑ Donal Ó Drisceoil (2003). "My Pen is just a weapon". Politics, History and the Fiction of Peadar O'Donnell. The Irish Review. https://cora.ucc.ie/bitstream/handle/10468/3085/DOD_MyPV2003.pdf?sequence=4.