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Mogeely

Mogeely is a village in County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 389 people. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.

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Mogeely
Maigh Dhíle (Irish)
Village
Dairygold Co-Op store in Mogeely in 2014 (since remodelled)
Dairygold Co-Op store in Mogeely in 2014 (since remodelled)
Mogeely
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°55′51″N 8°3′34″W / 51.93083°N 8.05944°W / 51.93083; -8.05944
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Cork
Population
 (2016)1
 • Total
389
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Mogeely (Irish: Maigh Dhíle)2 is a village in County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 389 people.1 The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.2

Mogeely lies in east Cork, approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Castlemartyr off the N25 national primary road.3 Mogeely railway station was, until it closed in the 1970s, a stop on the Cork to Youghal railway line. The nearest train station is now Midleton railway station.

Located within a largely rural area, Mogeely hosted the National Ploughing Championships in 2005.4 Local employers include the Dairygold Co-Operative Society, which operates two cheese processing plants in the area.5

The Pine family, originally English, were the main landowners here from the 1580s to the early 1700s.6 Henry Pine was granted Mogeely under Queen Elizabeth I, holding it as a tenant of Sir Walter Raleigh. During the serious disturbances in Munster in 1598, he fled back to England, but later returned to Mogeely.7 His grandson, Sir Richard Pyne, was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1695 to 1709.8 Their home, Mogeely Castle, no longer exists.9

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References

  1. "Mogeely (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. "Maigh Dhíle / Mogeely". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Database. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  3. "Safety on Killeagh Road, Mogeely Needs Highlighting". eastcorkjournal.ie. East Cork Journal. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. "Ploughing Championships under way in Cork". rte.ie. RTÉ News. 27 September 2005. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  5. "Mogeely to be cheese centre of excellence". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2020. Norwegian agriculture minister [..] visited Mogeely last week to view the site where a TINE/Dairygold Co-op partnership will develop the facility beside Dairygold's existing cheese plant
  6. Clavin, Terry. "Henry Pine". Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography.
  7. Atkinson, Ernest George, ed. (1895). Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1598-1599. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 485–507 – via British History Online. Elizabeth I: volume 203, March 1599 [..] Henry Pine, of Moghelly, an English gentleman
  8. Ball, F. Elrington (1926). The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921. London: John Murray.
  9. "1991:027 - Mogeely Castle, Mogeely, Cork". excavations.ie. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
Mogeely Station was closed to passenger traffic in the 1960s and to freight in the 1970s source ↗