Kildorrery
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Kildorrery (Cill Dairbhre in Irish: "oak-forest church") is a village in north County Cork, Ireland. It lies at the crossroads of the routes from Mallow to Mitchelstown and Kilmallock to Fermoy.
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 at the height of the Great Famine in 1847.
The views from this hilltop village are beautiful. To the east, the Galtee mountains and Knockmealdowns with Slievenamon in the fading distance. To the north the Ballyhouras – the Limerick road is flanked by two mountains, Castlegale and Carrigeenamronety (Carraigín na mBróinte). To the south, across the Blackwater Valley are the Nagle mountains, and to the west towards Kerry are 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 applications to An Bord Pleanála in 2004 and 2008 to place a landfill dump in the Ballyhoura Mountains next to the village.
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