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Country
  
Ireland

Irish Grid Reference
  
Q518011

Province
  
Munster

County
  
County Kerry

Local time
  
Saturday 8:09 PM

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind SW at 34 km/h, 99% Humidity

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Lios Póil (anglicized Lispole) is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the Dingle Peninsula, 5 miles east of the town of Dingle and 25 miles west of Tralee on the N86 National Secondary Route.

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Map of Lispole, Co. Kerry, Ireland

R old lispole band


Transport

Bus Éireann services between Tralee and Dingle on the 275 route serve Lispole.

The Tralee and Dingle narrow gauge railway ran through Lispole, and a viaduct on the line still stands near the village. Lispole railway station opened on 1 April 1891, shut for passenger traffic on 17 April 1939, shut for goods traffic on 10 March 1947 and shut altogether on 1 July 1953.

People

  • Lispole is the birthplace of Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD for Dublin West and former MEP for the Dublin constituency.
  • Kinard, Lispole is the birthplace of Irish Republican revolutionary Thomas Ashe (Irish: Tomás Ághas).
  • Lispole is the birthplace of Paudie Fitzgerald, cyclist and businessman. Won the Rás Tailteann in 1956 and represented Ireland in the Melbourne Olympics the same year

    • References

    Lispole Wikipedia
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