Carrignavar
Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W
| Carrignavar Carraig na bhFear | |
|---|---|
| Town and townland | |
  Carrignavar Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W / 51.989°N 8.477°W | |
| State | Republic of Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Barony | Barrymore |
| Civil parish | Dunbulloge and Whitechurch |
| Elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 499 |
| Eircode (Routing Key) | T34 |
| OSI grid reference | W6770281992 |
| Website | Carraig Na bhFear |
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Carrignavar (Irish: Carraig na bhFear, meaning "the rock of the men"[1][2]) 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.
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.[3][4] It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.[5] His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,[4][6][7] though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained.[5] 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.[8]
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.[6] 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.[6][9]
References
- 1 2 "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. 1. London, New York: Longmans, Green and co. p. 22.
- ↑ "The Clann Carthaigh (continued)". Kerry Archaeological Magazine. 3 (15): 206–226. October 1915. JSTOR 30059741.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 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 bouroughs as defined by the act of the 2d. and 3d. of William IV. Lewis. p. 279. ISBN.
- 1 2 3 "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. 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
- Census Returns for Carrignavar from the National Archives of Ireland: 1901 Census and 1911 Census