Carrignavar
Village in County Cork, Ireland
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Carrignavar
Carraig na bhFear | |
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Village | |
  Carrignavar Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 51°59′20″N 8°28′37″W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Barony | Barrymore |
| Civil parish | Dunbulloge and Whitechurch |
| Elevation | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 519 |
| Eircode (Routing Key) | T34 |
| OSI grid reference | W6770281992 |
Carrignavar (Irish: Carraig na bhFear, meaning 'the rock of the men'[2][3]) 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.[4]
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.[5][6] It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.[7] His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,[6][8][9] though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained.[7] 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.[10]
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.[8] 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.[8][11]
