Editing Lispole

{{Short description|Village in County Kerry, Ireland}}
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|other_name             = Lispole
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|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Munster]]
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|subdivision_name3      = [[County Kerry]]
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|unit_pref              = Metric
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|population_urban       = 768
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|footnotes              =As this is a Gaeltacht village, the Irish ''Lios Póil'' is the only official name.
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'''Lios Póil''' (anglicised as '''Lispole''') is a [[Gaeltacht]]<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/1393748.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]</ref> village in [[County Kerry]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the [[Dingle Peninsula]], 8&nbsp;km east of the town of [[Dingle]] and 40&nbsp;km west of [[Tralee]] on the [[N86 road (Ireland)|N86]] [[National Secondary Route]].

==Transport==
[[Bus Éireann]] services between Tralee and Dingle on the 275 route serve Lispole.

The [[Tralee and Dingle Light Railway|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.<ref>{{cite web | title=Lispole station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | accessdate=2007-11-03}}</ref>

==People==
*Lispole is the birthplace of [[Joe Higgins (politician)|Joe Higgins]], former Socialist Party TD for [[Dublin West (Dáil constituency)|Dublin West]] and former MEP for the Dublin constituency.
*Kinard, Lispole is the birthplace of Irish Republican revolutionary [[Thomas Ashe]] (Irish: Tomás Ághas).
*Catherine Ashe, [[Gregory Peck|Gregory Peck's]] paternal grandmother, had ties to the area, which Peck frequently visited because of his family connections.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brennan |first1=Marjorie |title=Gregory Peck's family reconnect with Ireland |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30932935.html |access-date=14 December 2024 |publisher=Irish Examiner |date=25 June 2019}}</ref> 
*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 the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050209140437/http://kerrycoco.ie/planning/lispole.asp  Kerry County Council Lispole Plan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124542/http://95.45.178.102/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0999.pdf Statement of James Fitzgerald, OC Lispole Company, Irish Volunteers, 1913-1921], Bureau of Military History.

{{County Kerry}}

[[Category:Towns and villages in County Kerry]]
[[Category:Gaeltacht places in County Kerry]]