Curraghbinny

{{Short description|Townland in County Cork, Ireland}}

{{other uses|Currabinny (disambiguation){{!}}Currabinny}}

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Curraghbinny ({{irish place name|Corra Binne}}),{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/9320.aspx | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland |website = logainm.ie | title = Corra Binne / Curraghbinny | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }} also sometimes spelled Currabinny or Currabinney,{{cite web|url = https://www.thecork.ie/2020/12/30/a-bird-reserve-next-to-a-pharmaceutical-facility-loughbegcork/ | publisher = | website = thecork.ie | title = A bird reserve next to a pharmaceutical facility | date = 30 December 2020 | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }} is a townland in County Cork, Ireland.{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/cork/kerrycurrihy/carrigaline/carrigaline/curraghbinny/ | website = townlands.ie | title = Curraghbinny Townland, Co. Cork | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }} Located on Cork Harbour near Ringaskiddy and with an area of {{convert|2.4|km2|ha}}, it is a townland in the barony of Kerrycurrihy. As of the 2011 census, Curraghbinny townland had a population of 155 people.{{cite web|url = https://data.gov.ie/dataset/cd153-cork-population-by-private-households-occupied-and-vacancy-rate?package_type=dataset | website = data.gov.ie | publisher = Central Statistics Office | title = CD153 - Cork Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate by Townlands, CensusYear and Statistic | date = 2011 | accessdate = 25 September 2021 | quote = Curraghbinny, Carrigaline, Co. Cork [..] 155}}

Lough Beg Bird Reserve and Curraghbinny Wood are located in the area.{{cite web|url = http://lbbrcork.ie/| website = lbbrcork.ie | title = Lough Beg Bird Reserve | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }} Curraghbinny Wood, a forested amenity of approximately {{convert|35|ha}}, contains the remains of a Bronze Age cairn which is known locally as the "giant's grave".{{cite web|url = https://www.ringofcork.ie/listings/curraghbinny-woods/| website = ringofcork.ie | title = Curraghbinny Woods | date = | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }}{{cite map | url = https://www.coillte.ie/media/2017/01/Cork-Curraghbinny.pdf| publisher = Coillte | website = coillte.ie | title = Cork-Curraghbinny | date = 2017 | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }}{{cite journal | url = https://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1933/b1933-023.pdf | title = Excavation of cairn in townland of Curraghbinny, Co. Cork | last = Ó Ríordáin | first = Seán P. | journal = Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society | volume = XXXVIII | pages = 80–84 | date = 1933 }} The cairn, which was subject to excavation in the 1930s (during which cremated human remains and a bronze ring was found), was restored in the 1990s.{{cite book | quote = On top of a hill in Curraghbinny wood at E tip of E-W ridge, overlooking Cork Harbour [..] Excavated in 1932 by O Ríordáin (1933, 80-4) who found a cairn of stone enclosed by rough dry-stone wall [..and..] fragmentary cremated human bone and charcoal between stones of circle [..] The monument was taken into State Care in 1984 and the cairn was reinstated in July 1998 | title = Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork | place = Dublin | publisher = Government Stationery Office }} There is a plaque to the Irish-Canadian politician, William Warren Baldwin, within the wood.{{cite web|url = https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/index.php/plaques/william-warren-baldwin-1775-1844?p=plaques/william-warren-baldwin-1775-1844 | publisher = Ontario Heritage Trust | website = heritagetrust.on.ca | title = William Warren Baldwin 1775-1844 | accessdate = 25 September 2021 }}{{cite web|url = http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques/Plaque_Outside14.html | website = ontarioplaques.com |title = Plaques outside Ontario - William Warren Baldwin 1775-1844 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20141011134859/http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques/Plaque_Outside14.html | archivedate = 11 October 2014 }}

There is a large pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, which was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m in 2019, in Curraghbinny townland.{{cite web|url = https://www.siliconrepublic.com/jobs-news/thermo-fisher-scientific-cork-jobs | website = siliconrepublic.com | title = Thermo Fisher Scientific to hire for 36 'high-level' jobs in Cork | date = 25 August 2020 | accessdate = 25 September 2021 | quote = Late last year, the Currabinny site was acquired by Thermo Fisher from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m }}