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Scartaglen

Village in County Kerry, Ireland

Village in County Kerry, Ireland

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settlement_typeVillage
nameScartaglen
native_nameScairteach an Ghlinne
image_skylineOur Lady of Lourdes Church Scartaglen.jpg
imagesize300px
image_captionOur Lady of Lourdes Church
mapsize230px
map_captionLocation of Scartaglen in Ireland
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pushpin_relief1
pushpin_label_positionright
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Ireland
coordinates
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subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameIreland
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Munster
subdivision_type2County
subdivision_name2Kerry
subdivision_type3Council
subdivision_name3Kerry County Council
subdivision_type4Dáil Éireann
subdivision_name4Kerry
subdivision_type5European Parliament
subdivision_name5South
population_total163
population_note(Scartaglin townland)
population_as_of2011
population_footnotes
area_code_typeTelephone area code
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Scartaglen or Scartaglin () is a village and townland in the Sliabh Luachra area of County Kerry, Ireland. It is located on the R577 regional road, close to the town of Castleisland. As of the 2011 census, the townland of Scartaglin had a population of 163 people.

The local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and was built between 1928 and 1930. Scartaglin National School is a co-educational primary (national) school which had over 120 pupils enrolled as of the 2020 school year. The local Gaelic Athletic Association club, Scartaglin GAA, fields teams in the East Kerry Division.

Notable people

  • Neil Horan, defrocked Roman Catholic priest
  • Eileen Sheehan, Irish poet based in Killarney

References

References

  1. "Scairteach an Ghlinne / Scartaglin". Placenames Database of Ireland.
  2. "Welcome to Scartaglin".
  3. "World Fiddle Day Scartaglin".
  4. "CD156 - Kerry Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate by Townlands, CensusYear and Statistic". Central Statistics Office.
  5. "Our Lady Of Lourdes Catholic Church, Scartaglin, Kerry". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
  6. "School - Scartaglin New Central School (19745I)". Department of Education.
  7. (September 2017). "East Kerry GAA Fixtures Update".
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