Killarney, Florida

Killarney, Florida
Killarney, Florida
Unincorporated community
	Killarney Station, a bike shop used on the two rail-trails that terminate at Killarney
	Killarney, Florida
	Coordinates: 28°32′50″N 81°39′01″W / 28.54722°N 81.65028°W
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Orange
Elevation	131 ft (40 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	34740
Area code(s)	407, 689 & 321
GNIS feature ID	295390

Killarney is an unincorporated community in Orange County, Florida, United States.^[1] Its ZIP code is 34740.^[2] The community is located west of Oakland, south of Lake Apopka, north of John's Lake, and east of the Lake-Orange County Line.

The main roads through Killarney are State Road 50, Old CR 50, and County Road 438. The West Orange Trail and South Lake-Lake Minneola Scenic Trail terminate within the community. Florida's Turnpike also runs through Killarney, but has no interchanges there. The nearest interchange is with SR 50 in nearby Oakland.

History

A post office called Killarney was established in 1887,^[3] closed in 1902, reopened in 1926, and closed once more in 2003.

The community was named after Killarney, in Ireland.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Killarney, Florida". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
^ "Orange County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
^ Clark, Alisson (May 10, 1999). "What's in a name?". Ocala Star-Banner. pp. 3C. Retrieved June 7, 2015.

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