Kildorrery
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Kildorrery (Cill Dairbhre in Gaelic, or "Church of the Oaks") is a village in North County Cork, Ireland, located between Mallow and Mitchelstown, or between Kilmallock and Fermoy at the centre of the crossroads between the two routes.
The local economy is based on agriculture; there is a large horticultural business and a national haulage firm along with small family run pubs and shops.
The school on Fermoy Road was constructed in 1977 replacing the two-roomed "Old School" formerly known as Scart National School built in the height of the Great Famine in 1847.
The views from this hilltop village are beautiful. To the East, the Galtees and Knockmealdowns with Slevenamon in the fading distance. To the North the Ballyhouras, the Limerick road flanked by two mountains, Castlegale and Carraigeen na Breointe. To the South across the Blackwater valley to the Nagles and to the West towards Kerry, the Paps visible on a fine day.
In recent years, several nationalities have settled in the village, from as far afield as Ukraine and the Baltic states, reflecting a growing trend in rural Ireland where multinational immigrants are diversifying the rural population as Irish-born youth migrate to city areas.
The town has been the subject of a number of environmental concerns in the recent past: a local defeat of the municipal dump at Ballyguyroe in 2001, a defeat of Greenstar's application at An Bord Pleanala in 2004, and lately the reopening of Greenstar's plans to place a landfill dump in the Ballyhoura mountains next to the village.
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