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Revision as of 20:27, 8 January 2007 by 83.71.81.250 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)'Bold text'Doneraile (Irish: Dún ar Aill) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It is located off the N20 road between Limerick / Cork and Mitchelstown. It is about 12km north of Mallow town.
The steeplechase originated in 1752 as a result of a race between the church steeples of the town and neighbouring Buttevant town.
Doneraile was the subject of the popular song "Doneraile Park" originally sung Richard Harris. It tells of how Doneraile is inhabited by addicts and drug dealers.
The town is renouned as the town where the first successful agricultural co-operative and creamery was established in 1889 by Horace Plunkett, and is also famed as the pastorate of the great Irish literate Canon P.A. Sheehan where he was parish priest from 1895 until his death in 1913 and who was also politically active in the tenant land purchase movement.
See also
References
External links
- Doneraile parish
- Neill O'Donnell's Doneraile page
- Bev Richardson's Castle Pook page
- A poem by Patrick O'Kelly about Doneraile
- Doneraile Golf Club
52°13′N 8°35′W / 52.217°N 8.583°W / 52.217; -8.583
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