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Dunmanway
Dunmanway (Irish: Dúnmaonmhuí, official Irish name: Dún Mánmhaí) is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is named. The town centre is built on and around two rivers, which are tributaries of the larger River Bandon, which passes by at the east end of the town.
The town is twinned with Quéven, France. Dunmanway won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1982. The town came to national and international attention in 2009 when Liverpool Football Club played a pre-season soccer friendly in the area.
The population of Dunmanway at the 2011 census was 1,585, rising to 1,964 by the 2022 census.
The town's Irish language name is rendered, among other variations, as Dúnmaonmhuí or Dún Mánmhaí. A number of derivations are given for the meaning and origin of the town's name. For example, in Irish Local Names Explained (first published in 1870), the historian and etymologist Patrick Weston Joyce gives the meaning as "the fort of the gables (or pinnacles)". In A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, published by Samuel Lewis in 1837, it is given as meaning "the castle of the yellow river" or "the castle on the little plain", referring to a MacCarthy castle in the area. Other sources suggest it means "the fort of the yellow women".
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, standing stone and ogham stone sites in the townlands of Dunmanway North, Dunmanway South, Demesne and Underhill. A Bronze Age trumpet, discovered in the area, is now held in the British Museum.
From the mid-13th to the late 17th century the surrounding districts of the town of Dunmanway were included in the territory of the MacCarthy Clan.
Dunmanway Castle once stood on a bank of the Sally River on the left-hand side of present-day Castle Street. It was one of the chief residences of the MacCarthy Lords of Gleannacroim, cousins of the MacCarthy Reagh sept. Dating from the late 15th century, the tower house is recorded to have been built by Catherine Fitzgerald. There was likely a small settlement in the environs of the castle.
In 1590, Dunmanway and its hinterlands were surrendered and regranted as freehold under English tenure to Tadhg-an-Fhorsa MacCarthy being part of the sept's ancestral lands. In 1615, under King James I, a charter reaffirmed his possession of the manor and manorial privileges, including the right to hold a Saturday market at Kilbarrah (now Kilbarry), an annual fair at Ballyhallowe (now Ballyhalwick) on 24 September and legal jurisdiction through a court of pie powder. These grants reflect an earlier phase of Crown-sponsored territorial consolidation in the Dunmanway area, preceding the 17th-century colonial developments.
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Dunmanway
Dunmanway (Irish: Dúnmaonmhuí, official Irish name: Dún Mánmhaí) is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is named. The town centre is built on and around two rivers, which are tributaries of the larger River Bandon, which passes by at the east end of the town.
The town is twinned with Quéven, France. Dunmanway won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1982. The town came to national and international attention in 2009 when Liverpool Football Club played a pre-season soccer friendly in the area.
The population of Dunmanway at the 2011 census was 1,585, rising to 1,964 by the 2022 census.
The town's Irish language name is rendered, among other variations, as Dúnmaonmhuí or Dún Mánmhaí. A number of derivations are given for the meaning and origin of the town's name. For example, in Irish Local Names Explained (first published in 1870), the historian and etymologist Patrick Weston Joyce gives the meaning as "the fort of the gables (or pinnacles)". In A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, published by Samuel Lewis in 1837, it is given as meaning "the castle of the yellow river" or "the castle on the little plain", referring to a MacCarthy castle in the area. Other sources suggest it means "the fort of the yellow women".
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, standing stone and ogham stone sites in the townlands of Dunmanway North, Dunmanway South, Demesne and Underhill. A Bronze Age trumpet, discovered in the area, is now held in the British Museum.
From the mid-13th to the late 17th century the surrounding districts of the town of Dunmanway were included in the territory of the MacCarthy Clan.
Dunmanway Castle once stood on a bank of the Sally River on the left-hand side of present-day Castle Street. It was one of the chief residences of the MacCarthy Lords of Gleannacroim, cousins of the MacCarthy Reagh sept. Dating from the late 15th century, the tower house is recorded to have been built by Catherine Fitzgerald. There was likely a small settlement in the environs of the castle.
In 1590, Dunmanway and its hinterlands were surrendered and regranted as freehold under English tenure to Tadhg-an-Fhorsa MacCarthy being part of the sept's ancestral lands. In 1615, under King James I, a charter reaffirmed his possession of the manor and manorial privileges, including the right to hold a Saturday market at Kilbarrah (now Kilbarry), an annual fair at Ballyhallowe (now Ballyhalwick) on 24 September and legal jurisdiction through a court of pie powder. These grants reflect an earlier phase of Crown-sponsored territorial consolidation in the Dunmanway area, preceding the 17th-century colonial developments.