51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W
Carrignavar
Carraig na bhFear | |
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Village | |
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]
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]
51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W
Carrignavar
Carraig na bhFear | |
---|---|
Village | |
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]
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]