Scartaglen
Village in County Kerry, Ireland
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Scartaglen or Scartaglin (Irish: Scairteach an Ghlinne)[2] is a village and townland in the Sliabh Luachra area of County Kerry, Ireland.[3] It is located on the R577 regional road, close to the town of Castleisland.[4] As of the 2011 census, the townland of Scartaglin had a population of 163 people.[1]
Scartaglen
Scairteach an Ghlinne | |
|---|---|
Village | |
Our Lady of Lourdes Church | |
  Scartaglen Location in Ireland  Scartaglen Scartaglen (Europe) | |
| Coordinates: 52.1791°N 9.406°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Kerry |
| Council | Kerry County Council |
| Dáil Éireann | Kerry |
| European Parliament | South |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 163 |
| (Scartaglin townland) | |
| Time zone | UTC±0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST) |
| Telephone area code | +353(0)64 |
| Irish Grid Reference | R038039 |
The local Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and was built between 1928 and 1930.[5] Scartaglin National School is a co-educational primary (national) school which had over 120 pupils enrolled as of the 2020 school year.[6] The local Gaelic Athletic Association club, Scartaglin GAA, fields teams in the East Kerry Division.[7]
Notable people
- Neil Horan, defrocked Roman Catholic priest[citation needed]
- Eileen Sheehan, Irish poet based in Killarney[citation needed]