Carrignavar
{{Short description|Village in County Cork, Ireland}}
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Carrignavar ({{Irish place name|Carraig na bhFear|the rock of the men}}{{cite web|url=http://logainm.ie/9336.aspx|title=Carrignavar|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|accessdate=7 July 2012}}{{cite book|last=Joyce|first=P. W.|authorlink=Patrick Weston Joyce|title=The origin and history of Irish names of places |year=1898 |volume=1 |location=London, New York |publisher=Longmans, Green and co. |chapter-url=http://home.us.archive.org/stream/originhistoryof01joyc#page/22/mode/1up|page=22|chapter=The Irish Local Name System: Systematic Changes}}) 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.{{cite web|url = https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2021-04/volume-4-south-cork-updated-29-04-2021web.pdf | publisher = Cork County Council | work = Cork County Development Plan | title = Draft - Volume 4 - South Cork - Carrigaline, Cobh, East Cork and Macroom Municipal Districts | date = 2011 }}
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.{{cite journal|date=October 1915|title=The Clann Carthaigh (continued)|journal=Kerry Archaeological Magazine|volume=3|issue=15|pages=206–226|jstor=30059741}} It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.{{Cite book|author=Samuel Lewis|title=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.|date=1840|publisher=Lewis |pages=279}} His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,{{cite book|last=Burke|first=John|authorlink=John Burke (genealogist)|title=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|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0I9AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA610|accessdate=7 July 2012|volume=II|year=1835|publisher=Colburn|pages=610–11|chapter=M'Carty, of Carrignavar}}{{cite web|url=http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie:8080/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2983|title=Estate: McCartie (Carrignavar)|date=17 May 2011|work=Landed Estates Database|publisher=NUI Galway|accessdate=28 June 2012}}{{cite book|last=O'Donovan|first=John|others=translation of a poem by Cormacan Eigeas|title=The Circuit of Ireland by Muircheartach Mac Neill|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/tractsrelatingto01irisuoft#page/64/mode/1up|series=Tracts relating to Ireland|volume=1|year=1841|publisher=Irish Archaeological Society|location=Dublin|page=64|chapter=Additional Notes B: the descent of the MacCarthys}} though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained. 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.{{cite journal|last=Dickson|first=David|year=2004|title=Jacobitism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: A Munster Perspective|journal=Éire-Ireland|volume=39|issue=3|pages=38–99|issn=1550-5162|doi=10.1353/eir.2004.0020}}
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century. John Sheedy bought it in the early twentieth century and later sold it to the Sacred Heart Fathers, who opened Sacred Heart College ({{langx|ga|Coláiste an Chroí Naofa}}) secondary school there in 1950.{{cite web|url=http://www.colaisteanchroinaofa.com/index.php/about |title=About Us |work=Official website |publisher=Coláiste an Chroí Naofa |accessdate=7 July 2012 |location=Carrignavar |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823154636/http://colaisteanchroinaofa.com/index.php/about |archivedate=23 August 2013 |df=dmy }}
References
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External links
- Census Returns for Carrignavar from the National Archives of Ireland: [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Carrignavar/ 1901 Census] and [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Carrignavar/ 1911 Census]
- [http://homepage.eircom.net/~carrignavaronline/ Carraig Na bhFear - Carrignavar Online]
Category:Towns and villages in County Cork
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