Carrignavar

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. Carrignavar is within the Cork North-Central Dáil constituency.

Carrignavar

Carraig na bhFear
Village
Carrignavar
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W
StateRepublic of Ireland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCork
BaronyBarrymore
Civil parishDunbulloge and Whitechurch
Elevation
120 m (390 ft)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total519
Eircode (Routing Key)
T34
OSI grid referenceW6770281992
WebsiteCarraig Na bhFear
[2]

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.[4][5] It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.[6] His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,[5][7][8] though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained.[6] 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.[9]

Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.[7] 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.[7][10]

References
  1. "Census 2016 - Small Area Population Statistics (SAPMAP Area) - Settlements - Carrignavar". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office.
  2. "Carrignavar". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  3. Joyce, P. W. (1898). "The Irish Local Name System: Systematic Changes". The origin and history of Irish names of places. 1. London, New York: Longmans, Green and co. p. 22.
  4. "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)". Kerry Archaeological Magazine. 3 (15): 206–226. October 1915. JSTOR 30059741.
  5. 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. II. Colburn. pp. 610–11. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  6. 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.
  7. "Estate: McCartie (Carrignavar)". Landed Estates Database. NUI Galway. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  8. O'Donovan, John (1841). "Additional Notes B: the descent of the MacCarthys". The Circuit of Ireland by Muircheartach Mac Neill. Tracts relating to Ireland. 1. translation of a poem by Cormacan Eigeas. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society. p. 64.
  9. 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.
  10. "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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