Carrignavar
51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W
Carrignavar
Carraig na bhFear | |
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Village | |
  Carrignavar Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Barony | Barrymore |
| Civil parish | Dunbulloge and Whitechurch |
| Elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Population | 519 |
| Eircode (Routing Key) | T34 |
| OSI grid reference | W6770281992 |
Carrignavar (Irish: Carraig na bhFear, meaning 'the rock of the men'[2][3]) is a village in County Cork, north of Cork city. It lies east of Whitechurch and west of the R614 road, by a bridge over the Cloghnagash River. For election purposes, Carrignavar is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central, and (for planning purposes) is designated a "key village" within the municipal district of Cobh by Cork County Council.[4]
History
[edit]A castle was built at Carrignavar by Donal or Daniel McCarthy, younger brother of the first Viscount Muskerry, of the MacCarthy of Muskerry family.[5][6] It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.[7] His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,[6][8][9] though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained.[7] In the eighteenth century, Charles MacCarthy was a Jacobite sympathiser and patron of late Gaelic poetry; he and his poets converted, at least in form, from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican Church of Ireland to escape the Penal Laws.[10]
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.[8] John Sheedy bought it in the early twentieth century and later sold it to the Sacred Heart Fathers, who opened Sacred Heart College (Irish: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa) secondary school there in 1950.[8][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Census 2016 - Small Area Population Statistics (SAPMAP Area) - Settlements - Carrignavar". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office.
- ^ "Carrignavar". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ^ Joyce, P. W. (1898). "The Irish Local Name System: Systematic Changes". The origin and history of Irish names of places. Vol. 1. London, New York: Longmans, Green and co. p. 22.
- ^ "Draft - Volume 4 - South Cork - Carrigaline, Cobh, East Cork and Macroom Municipal Districts" (PDF). Cork County Development Plan. Cork County Council. 2011.
- ^ "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)". Kerry Archaeological Magazine. 3 (15): 206–226. October 1915. JSTOR 30059741.
- ^ a b Burke, John (1835). "M'Carty, of Carrignavar". A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. Vol. II. Colburn. pp. 610–11. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ^ a b Samuel Lewis (1840). A topographical dictionary of Ireland comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs corporate, market, and post towns, parishes and villages ... : With an appendix describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs as defined by the act of the 2d. and 3d. of William IV. Lewis. p. 279.
- ^ a b c "Estate: McCartie (Carrignavar)". Landed Estates Database. NUI Galway. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ O'Donovan, John (1841). "Additional Notes B: the descent of the MacCarthys". The Circuit of Ireland by Muircheartach Mac Neill. Tracts relating to Ireland. Vol. 1. translation of a poem by Cormacan Eigeas. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society. p. 64.
- ^ Dickson, David (2004). "Jacobitism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: A Munster Perspective". Éire-Ireland. 39 (3): 38–99. doi:10.1353/eir.2004.0020. ISSN 1550-5162.
- ^ "About Us". Official website. Carrignavar: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- Census Returns for Carrignavar from the National Archives of Ireland: 1901 Census and 1911 Census
- Carraig Na bhFear - Carrignavar Online
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