Carrigeen

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of fulacht fiadh, megalithic tomb and ring barrow sites in the townlands of Luffany, Licketstown, Ballygorey, Ballinlough and Corluddy.{{cite book | title = Record of Monuments and Places - County Kilkenny | date = 1996 | publisher = National Monuments and Historic Properties Service | place = Dublin }}{{cite report |url = https://kilkennycoco.ie/images_upload/docs/main.pdf | chapter = Appendix 1A - Catalogue of Archaeological Sites

| title = N24 Mooncoin Bypass - Constraints Study Report - August 2001 | date = 2001 | via = Kilkenny County Council }} Carrigeen village is also close to settlements at Licketstown and Glengrant, which date to Norman times.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

File:Castles of Leinster, Corluddy, Kilkenny (1) - geograph.org.uk - 4570947.jpg lies southeast of Carrigeen village]]

Other local historic landmarks include Grannagh and Corluddy Castle (from Cor loda meaning 'round hill of the mine').{{cite web|url = https://irishtowerhouses.ie/county-kilkenny/corluddy-castle-co-kilkenny/ | website = irishtowerhouses.ie | title = Corluddy Castle, Co. Kilkenny | accessdate = 4 February 2025 }} Corluddy Castle is a Norman-era tower house, the ruins of which are on a hill to the southeast of the village overlooking the River Suir. The Grant family, who were landlords of Glengrant townland, lived there until the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland (1649).{{cite book | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti04carr/page/327/mode/2up | chapter = Curluddy | title = The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, Volume IV | last = Carrigan | first = William | date = 1905 | pages = 161, 162 | via = archive.org}}{{cite book | quote = [Corluddy Castle] belonged to the Grants until confiscated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Peter Grant, chief of the family, died 1510 |last=O'Kelly|first=Owen|title=The Place-Names of County Kilkenny|year=1985|publisher=Boethius Press|isbn=0-9501687-8-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofco00okel | via = archive.org }}

St. Kevin's Church in Carrigeen was built in 1893.{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12404514/saint-kevins-catholic-church-corluddy-carrigeen-kilkenny | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = Saint Kevin's Catholic Church, Corluddy, Carrigeen, Kilkenny | accessdate = 4 February 2025 }} It is one of three churches in the Catholic parish of Mooncoin, together with a church in Killinaspick and Mooncoin.{{cite web|url = https://ossory.ie/parishes/mooncoin/ | publisher = Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory | website = ossory.ie | title = Parishes - Mooncoin | accessdate = 4 February 2025 }}

File:Field of long grass near Carrigeen - geograph.org.uk - 1480958.jpg

Carrigeen is situated on a hillock within the Suir Valley. It overlooks parts of south County Kilkenny as well as Slievenamon, Tory Hill and the Comeragh Mountains.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

Carrigeen National School celebrated its centenary in September 2000.{{cite web|url = https://www.carrigeenns.com/about-our-school.html | website = carrigeenns.com | title = Carrigeen NS - About Our School | accessdate = 4 February 2025 | quote = Carrigeen celebrated its Centenary in Sept 2000 }} The national school is the third school to serve the area, with Clashroe and the present community hall adjoining the churchyard previously used as schools. Carrigeen may originally have had a hedge school at Portnascully (from Port na Scoile meaning 'moat of the school'){{cite book | url = https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/OKelly-Place-Names-of-County-Kilkenny-Iverk-Barony.pdf | title = The Place-Names of County Kilkenny | editor-first = Sheila | editor-last = O'Kelly | publisher = Kilkenny Archaeological Society | page = 136 | quote = Portnascully, Port na scoile, fort of the school. Area 398 acres. The name is given as Poll na scoile in the Red Book of Ossory. There is no local tradition nor any historical record of any ancient school. The Port or Moat (30' high) is an immense circuit with a fosse [..] There is an area subject to flooding where the Portnascully river rising in Corluddy meets the Suir }} where a travelling master may have taught.{{fact|date=February 2025}} As of 2024, there were 124 pupils enrolled in Carrigeen National School.{{cite web | url = https://www.gov.ie/en/directory/page/enaz4g-2uirfe-/ | publisher = Department of Education | website = gov.ie | title = Directory Page - Carigeen N S | date = 23 August 2024 | accessdate = 4 February 2025 }}

Carrigeen GAA club was formed in 1954. Asper Park, the club grounds, was officially opened in 1991 by Paddy Buggy of Slieverue, former president of the GAA.{{cite web|url = http://www.kilkennycats.com/clubs/cgi-bin/cginews.pl?record=36 | website = kilkennycats.com | title = Kilkenny Cats - Clubs - Carrigeen | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080502145422/http://www.kilkennycats.com/clubs/cgi-bin/cginews.pl?record=36 |archive-date=2 May 2008 }} Nickey Brennan, who was then president elect of the GAA, also attended the opening. Carrigeen play in black and amber stripes. As of 2019, the club was playing hurling in the Junior C grade.{{cite web|url = https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/sport/359766/in-parish-with-two-clubs-mooncoin-and-carrigeen-officials-meet.html | website = Kilkenny People | title = In parish with two clubs, Mooncoin and Carrigeen officials meet |first = John | last = Knox | date = 24 January 2019 | accessdate = 4 February 2025 }}

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