Mogeely

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 is located in Ireland
Mogeely
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]
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]

  1. ^ a b "Mogeely (Ireland) Census Town". City Population. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b "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.