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The centre also hosts temporary exhibitions and, for example, hosted exhibits on John Philip Holland (loaned from the County Louth Museum) in 2000. [6] The centre is a tourist destination, including with visitors from cruise ships, which often dock in Cobh. [7] [8] The centre has two onsite gift shops and a café. [9]
Bruno O'Donoghue, Parish Histories and Placenames of West Cork, 1986, The Kerryman Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 1: West Cork, The Stationery Office, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7076-0175-4
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach seated themselves as kings of Carbery in what is now southwestern County Cork including Rosscarbery in the 13th century. [1] [2] Their primary allies in the initially small territory itself were O'Donovans, [1] and members of the Ui Chairpre; both were recent arrivals, gaining their lands from the O'Mahonys of Eóganacht Raithlind and the O'Driscolls of Corcu Loígde.
O'Sullivan (Irish: Ó Súilleabháin, Súileabhánach) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Cork and County Kerry.According to traditional genealogy, the O’Sullivans were descended from the ancient Eóganacht Chaisil sept of Cenél Fíngin, the founder of the clan who was placed in the 9th century, eight generations removed from Fíngen mac Áedo Duib, king ...
The Muskerry McCarthys' historical seat is Blarney Castle in County Cork. Legend has it that the Blarney Stone was given as a gift to Cormac MacCarthy, King of Desmond, from king Robert the Bruce of Scotland, who presented the 'magical' stone in gratitude for his assistance in the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The third castle built on the ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
In the 1841 census, before the outbreak of the Great Famine, County Cork had a recorded population of 854,118. [46] By the 2022 census, Cork city and county had a combined population of 584,156 people. [47] As of the 2022 census, ethnically the population included 78.5% White Irish people, 9.9% other White background, 1.4% Asian and 1.1% Black.
It is one of 24 baronies in the county of Cork. It may also be viewed as a half barony because some time before the 1821 census data, it was divided from its other half - Muskerry West . Other neighbouring baronies include Cork to the east (surrounding the city of Cork ), Duhallow to the north (whose chief town is Newmarket ) and the barony of ...