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Fermoy (Irish: Mainistir Fhear Maí, meaning 'monastery of the men of the plain') [8] is a town on the River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2022 census , the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,700 people. [ 1 ]
Fermoy (Irish: Mainistir Fhear Maí; [l 1] formerly also Armoy [1]) is a historical barony in County Cork in Ireland. [l 1] [1] It is bordered by the baronies of Orrery and Kilmore to the north-west; Duhallow to the west; Barretts to the south-west; Barrymore to the south; Condons and Clangibbon to the east; and Coshlea, County Limerick to the north.
The barracks were burnt to the ground by a group of Irish Republican Army irregulars after the British Army left in 1922. [3] The site subsequently became known as "the showgrounds" and is now occupied by Fermoy Rugby Club. [4]
Diana, Princess of Wales, was a great-great-granddaughter of the 1st Baron Fermoy through her mother, Frances Shand Kydd.Shand Kydd was the younger daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress Frances Ellen Work and her first husband, James Boothby Burke Roche, who, after their divorce, became the 3rd Baron Fermoy.
This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. [1] [2] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the barony, and also where a townland is known by two alternative names.
Castlehyde (Carraig an Éidigh) is a townland and estate located slightly west of Fermoy town that spans 79.98 acres (0.3237 km²). [5] Its manor house, Castlehyde House, had been the ancestral home of Douglas Hyde's family and is today one of several houses owned by Irish dancer, Michael Flatley.