State Republic of Ireland County Cork Elevation 120 m (390 ft) | Province Munster Barony Local time Sunday 6:09 PM | |
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Civil parish Dunbulloge and Whitechurch Weather 7°C, Wind W at 27 km/h, 64% Humidity | ||
Carrignavar (Irish: Carraig na bhFear, meaning "the rock of the men") 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.
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Map of Carrignavar, Co. Cork, Ireland
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. It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell. His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century, 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.
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 (Irish: Coláiste an Chroí Naofa) secondary school there in 1950.