Feenagh, County Limerick
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Feenagh Co Limerick Feenagh' (Irish: Fíodhnach, meaning "wooded place") is a village in west County Limerick, Ireland, ten miles from Newcastle West and six miles from Dromcolliher.
The village has one shop/post office, which is located on the site of the former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks near the old village pump. Feenagh also has a quality butchers and two welcoming pubs.
The new national school was built in 1970 and has 6 an taisce green flags to its name. The Carnegie Library was built in 1917, and the National School, built in 1847, is now used as a community centre.
The creamery built in the 1890s is now a garage. There are two holy wells in the locality of Feenagh. There was a new housing estate built on the sight where once stood the village forge. The village originated as a settlement in Cloncrew. Feenagh/Kilmeedy became a parish in 1851. The population of the parish is about 900. The church in Feenagh was built in the 18th century and was rebuilt in the 1870's. The stain glass window at the alter of the church was donated in memory of Hanora Irwin-Mc Mahon, by David Mc Mahon, native of Broadford.
The late Nollaig Ó Gadhra, an Irish language activist, journalist and historian. He had served as the President of Conradh na Gaeilge from 2004 to 2005 and was also a founding member of Teilifís na Gaeilge (TG4). Ó Gadhra was born on a family farm in Feenagh, County Limerick in 1943. His parents had returned to Ireland from the United States. He attended the Feenagh primary school before enrolling at the Scoil Mhuire secondary school in Dromcollogher and De La Salle residential school in Waterford. Ó Gadhra died on August 13, 2008, at the age of 64 at his home in Furbo, in Connemara.
The parishes most famous resident is Miss Marie Galvin (eventhough she doesn't like to brag), born and raised a Feenagh woman and has the wellington marks to prove it! Born into a sporting family, she has won great acclaim as a camogie shot-stopper and athletics champion and can be seen these days holding seminars on her achievements in the neighboring city of Ballingarry's Barretts University.
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