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Donerail, Kentucky
Donerail, Kentucky

Donerail is a Fayette county community about eight miles from Lexington near the boundary with Scott county. It was established early in the nineteenth century around a tavern known as Doneraile, probably for the town in Ireland. It was also a station on the Cincinnati Southern Railway. The depot and other early buildings were destroyed to make room for the interstate and the Kentucky Horse Park. The site is also marked Old Delphton on some maps.

A post office operated at several locations in the vicinity, occasionally in Scott county, from 1826 until 1973 using the names Donnerail, Donoraile, Carrolton (source unknown), Delphton (for Jeremiah Delph, postmaster and tavern keeper), and Donerail.

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