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Lios Póil (anglicized Lispole) is a Gaeltacht[2] village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the Dingle Peninsula, 8 km east of the town of Dingle and 40 km west of Tralee on the N86 National Secondary Route.

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Lios Póil Lispole
Village
Lios Póil Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°08′29″N 10°09′47″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Kerry
Population  (2006)[1]
• Urban	768
Irish Grid Reference	Q518011
As this is a Gaeltacht village, the Irish Lios Póil is the only official name.

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.[3]

People

• Lispole is the birthplace of Joe Higgins, former 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 attempted to represent Ireland in the Melbourne Olympics the same year

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

External links

• Kerry County Council Lispole Plan
• Statement of James Fitzgerald, OC Lispole Company, Irish Volunteers, 1913-1921, Bureau of Military History.

На других языках

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- [en] Lispole

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[ru] Лиспол

Лиспол[2] (англ. Lispole; ирл. Lios Póil, Лис-Поль)[3] — деревня в Ирландии, находится в графстве Керри (провинция Манстер). Является частью Гэлтахта.

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