Kerrycurrihy
Kerrycurrihy
Ciarraí Cuirche (Irish) | |
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 Mudflats in Owenabue | |
 Barony map of County Cork, 1900; Kerrycurrihy barony is in the south, coloured yellow. | |
  Kerrycurrihy | |
| Coordinates: 51°50′N 8°22′W / 51.83°N 8.36°W | |
| Sovereign state | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Area | |
• Total | 97.0 km2 (37.4 sq mi) |
Kerrycurrihy (Irish: Ciarraí Cuirche) is a historical barony in central County Cork, Ireland.[1][2]
Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units.[3] They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.[4][5]
History and legend
[edit]This area was anciently part of Muskerry Ilane, which also included the Imokilly barony. This was a territory of the Múscraige people.
The legendary High King of Ireland Rudraige mac Sithrigi is said to have cleared twelve plains in Ireland, including Kerrycurrihy.[6]
Kerrycurrihy takes its name from the Cíarraige Cuirche, a sept of the Cíarraige people who also give their name to County Kerry.
A biography of the 7th-century saint Mo Chutu of Lismore says that
One day Mochuda went to Kerrycurrihy, and found there in the district Corc, the king of Munster. There fell a fiery ball from the air, and killed the wife and son of the king, and two of his chariot horses. The king entreated Mochuda to raise them; and he did so with the grace of God.[7]
The Annals of the Four Masters mentions that at the AD 908 Battle of Ballaghmoon, at which the bishop-king Cormac mac Cuilennáin was slain at the head of a large Munster army, among the Munster dead was "Fogartach the Wise, son of Suibhne, lord of Ciarraighe-Cuirche."[8]
The O'Curry of Clan Torna were chiefs here.[9]
Kerrycurrihy was the first place to be planted with English colonists in the Munster Plantation in the 1560s.[10]
In the Down Survey, Kerrycurrihy was united with Kinalea, but by 1821 they were separate baronies.
Geography
[edit]Kerrycurrihy is a strip of land in the centre of County Cork, north of Kinalea, south of Cork City, east of Muskerry and west of Cork Harbour.
List of settlements
[edit]Settlements within the historical barony of Kerrycurrihy include:[1]
- Ballinhassig
- Ballygarvan
- Carrigaline
- Crosshaven
- Douglas
- Monkstown
- Myrtleville
- Passage West
- Ringaskiddy
- Shanbally
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ciarraí Cuirche/Kerrycurrihy". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland.
- ^ "Kerrycurrihy". www.townlands.ie.
- ^ "Property Price Register - Lands at Muff, Barony of Athlone North, Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon". www.myhome.ie.
- ^ General Register Office of Ireland (1904). "Alphabetical index to the baronies of Ireland". Census of Ireland 1901: General topographical index. Command papers. Vol. Cd. 2071. HMSO. pp. 966–978.
- ^ Office, Ireland Public Record (12 February 1891). "Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and of the Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland: Presented to Both Houses of the Oireachtas". Stationery Office. – via Google Books.
- ^ Murphy, Michael (2008). "LEBOR GABÁLA ÉRENN The Book of the Taking of Ireland PART VI Index Q-S EDITED AND TRANSLATED WITH NOTES, ETC. BY R. A. Stewart Macalister, D.Litt" (PDF). CELT.UCC.ie.
- ^ "Part 13 of Bethada Náem nÉrenn". celt.ucc.ie.
- ^ "Part 1 of Annals of the Four Masters". celt.ucc.ie.
- ^ "The Baronies of Ireland - History". 17 July 2019. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019.
- ^ "Munster plantation". Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100216876.
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