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Dripsey
Dripsey () is a village in County Cork on the R618 ''regional road'' around 20 km west of Cork City. It is situated on a tributary of the River Lee, the ''Dripsey River''. It is in the Catholic parish of Inniscarra. It is here the Cork County Council water treatment plant, the environmental protection agency branch for Cork, five star award winning garden center and the Cork angling center are located. The village has two pubs (The Lee Valley Inn and The Weigh Inn), one shop (Mary Lars) which also doubles as the post office. Dripsey has one primary school and one play school with many of the children attending secondary education in the nearby village of Coachford.
==Brief history==
Dripsey's name is derived from the Irish name ''Druipseach'', which means ''muddy river''. It is made up of Lower Dripsey, Dripsey Cross and Model Village. Model Village is the most populated part. Dripsey became built up in the Model Village largely due to the potato rush of 1898. There is a woolen mills located on the Dripsey river, which eventually closed down in the late 1970s.
In 1997, the "shortest" St. Patrick's Day parade took place in Dripsey.〔''The Wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick's Day'' - Mike Cronin, Daryl Adair - Page 247. ISBN 0-415-18004-X ()〕
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