Carrignavar

Carrignavar

Carrignavar

Village in County Cork, Ireland

51.989°N 8.477°W / 51.989; -8.477

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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

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

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    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.
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    "Draft - Volume 4 - South Cork - Carrigaline, Cobh, East Cork and Macroom Municipal Districts" (PDF). Cork County Development Plan. Cork County Council. 2011.
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    "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)". Kerry Archaeological Magazine. 3 (15): 206–226. October 1915. JSTOR 30059741.
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    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.
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    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. ISBN.
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    "Estate: McCartie (Carrignavar)". Landed Estates Database. NUI Galway. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
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    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.
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    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.
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    "About Us". Official website. Carrignavar: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2012.


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