Clondrohid
{{short description|Village in County Cork, Ireland}}
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Clondrohid ({{Irish place name|Cluain Droichead|meadow of the bridge}}){{cite web|publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | url = https://www.logainm.ie/11319.aspx | website = logainm.ie | title = Cluain Droichead / Clondrohid | accessdate = 16 October 2023 }}{{cite book | title = Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork | page = 181 | first = John |last = Harding Cole | date = 1903 | publisher = Guy and Company | quote = Clondrohid [..] That is, 'the Meadow of the Bridge' }} is a village and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland, four miles (6 km) north of Macroom. As of the 2022 census, the population of the village was recorded as 180, down slightly from 188 people as of the 2011 census.{{cite web|url = https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ireland/towns/cork/18807__clondrohid/ | title = Clondrohid (Ireland) Census Town | work = City Population | accessdate = 16 October 2023 }}
Geography
Parishes adjoining Clondrohid include Aghabulloge, Ballyvourney, Drishane, Kilcorney, Kilnamartry, and Macroom.{{cite web|title=Clondrohid, Cork|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/townlands/index.cfm?fuseaction=TownlandsInCivil&civilparishid=145&civilparish=Clondrohid&citycounty=Cork|publisher=Irish Ancestors|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130414054614/http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/townlands/index.cfm?fuseaction=TownlandsInCivil&civilparishid=145&civilparish=Clondrohid&citycounty=Cork | archivedate = 14 April 2013 }} The townlands of Clondrohid were once part of the barony of West Muskerry. Today, Clondrohid lies within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency.
Amenities
Local amenities include Clondrohid National School and community hall and a number of shops, pubs and services. A childcare facility is next to the GAA pitch which is also a preschool and an afterschool.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Carrigaphooca Castle. a ruined five story rectangular tower house is located on one of Clondrohid's townlands."[https://www.townlands.ie/cork/west-muskerry/clondrohid/kilnamartery/carrigaphooca/ Carrigaphooca Townland, Co. Cork]". townlands.ie. Retrieved 25 October 2023 A c. 3,000 year old Carrigaphooca stone circle is located in a field nearby the castle.{{cite journal | title = A Survey of Stone Circles in Cork and Kerry | first = Seán | last = Ó Nualláin | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature | volume = 84C |date = 1984 | page = 15 | jstor = 25506112 }}
Much of the western side of the village is a part of the Irish-speaking area or Gaeltacht. Some pupils of the national school go to the second-level school in Ballyvourney to further their education through the Irish language.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}
People
- Peadar Ó Laoghaire (1839-1920), Irish scholar and priest, was born in the parish of Clondrohid.{{cite book|editor-last=Welch|editor-first=Robert|date=1996|title=The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00welc/page/443|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=443|isbn=0-19-866158-4}}