Donoughmore
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Donoughmore is a parish in County Cork
which lies 25 km west north west of Cork
city in Ireland
.
There are four public houses in Donoughmore: "Josie's Bar", "Pat Barrys", "Sullys", and "Hoggies".
.
A Church of Ireland
church existed in the parish until the 1960s, when it was de-consecrated. The building was a garage until recently, and a plaque in the garage commemorated this fact.
At Donoughmore-cross there is also the ruins of a very old church. This church is the origin of the shrine of St Lachtins arm. This shrine now resides in the National Museum of Ireland
and is a hollow bronze sculpture of an arm and hand. The shrine contains wood which itself contains a small cavity that would have held a relic
at one time.
, and the local club is a dual code club as it plays both Hurling
and Gaelic football
. The club plays in the Muskery
(often called Mid-Cork) division of Cork . The Ladies' footballers
have had success at the highest level, winning the Senior All-Ireland
in 2001 and 2003 and being runners up twice in 2004 and 2009. In the men's, the footballers have been the most successful being the runners up in the Junior A Mid-Cork championship nine times in 1953, 56, 57, 62, 76, 81, 82, 93 2000 and 2011 but winning in 1952, 1983 and 1998. In 1983 they went on to win that year's County championship
. The Junior A Hurlers have reached the Mid-Cork final on six occasions in 1933, 1935, 1943, 1952, 2001 and 2008 - unfortunately the title has eluded them so far.
There is also a soccer team named Donoughmore Athletic, an Athletic Club, a Tug-o-war
club, and a Basketball club named "Singletons Super Valu Dononoughmore" - which won the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Championship. The newest sport to start in Donoughmore is Baseball
with the "Druids" being formed in 2004. Hare Coursing
, Road Bowling
and Set dancing
also take place in Donoughmore.
County Cork
County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...
which lies 25 km west north west of Cork
Cork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...
city in Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
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Amenities
Donoughmore has two primary schools. Scoil Iósaif and St. Lachteen's. There used to be more schools within the parish, including Rathcoola School.There are four public houses in Donoughmore: "Josie's Bar", "Pat Barrys", "Sullys", and "Hoggies".
Religion
Donoughmore civil parish is coterminous with the Roman Catholic parish which has two functioning churches: St. Josephs and St. Lachtin's. These churches are in the Catholic Diocese of CloyneRoman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne
The Diocese of Cloyne is a Roman Catholic diocese in southern Ireland. It is one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and is subject to the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The diocese is in the secular province of the same name - Munster...
.
A Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. The church operates in all parts of Ireland and is the second largest religious body on the island after the Roman Catholic Church...
church existed in the parish until the 1960s, when it was de-consecrated. The building was a garage until recently, and a plaque in the garage commemorated this fact.
At Donoughmore-cross there is also the ruins of a very old church. This church is the origin of the shrine of St Lachtins arm. This shrine now resides in the National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
The National Museum of Ireland is the national museum in Ireland. It has three branches in Dublin and one in County Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history.-Archaeology:...
and is a hollow bronze sculpture of an arm and hand. The shrine contains wood which itself contains a small cavity that would have held a relic
Relic
In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
at one time.
Sport
The most popular sport in the area are the Gaelic gamesGaelic games
Gaelic games are sports played in Ireland under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The two main games are Gaelic football and hurling...
, and the local club is a dual code club as it plays both Hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
and Gaelic football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
. The club plays in the Muskery
Muskerry GAA
Muskerry GAA is a Gaelic football and Hurling division located in the in the middle region of County Cork, Ireland. It is one of eight divisions of Cork GAA County Board. The division includes clubs from the western parts of Cork city to the county bounds with Kerry...
(often called Mid-Cork) division of Cork . The Ladies' footballers
Ladies' Gaelic football
Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...
have had success at the highest level, winning the Senior All-Ireland
Dolores Tyrrell Memorial Cup
The Dolores Tyrrell Memorial Cup is the ladies equivalent to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.-Roll of honour:-By county:L, M, U, C refer to Leinster/Munster/Ulster/Connacht championships won by teams from the county.-By province:...
in 2001 and 2003 and being runners up twice in 2004 and 2009. In the men's, the footballers have been the most successful being the runners up in the Junior A Mid-Cork championship nine times in 1953, 56, 57, 62, 76, 81, 82, 93 2000 and 2011 but winning in 1952, 1983 and 1998. In 1983 they went on to win that year's County championship
Cork Junior Football Championship
The Cork Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition in Cork. The competition was originally established in 1895 as a competition for second teams of clubs playing in the Cork Senior Football Championship. This is the fourth level of football clubs, under Senior, Premier...
. The Junior A Hurlers have reached the Mid-Cork final on six occasions in 1933, 1935, 1943, 1952, 2001 and 2008 - unfortunately the title has eluded them so far.
There is also a soccer team named Donoughmore Athletic, an Athletic Club, a Tug-o-war
Tug of war
Tug of war, also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war or rope pulling, is a sport that directly pits two teams against each other in a test of strength. The term may also be used as a metaphor to describe a demonstration of brute strength by two opposing groups, such as a rivalry between two...
club, and a Basketball club named "Singletons Super Valu Dononoughmore" - which won the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Championship. The newest sport to start in Donoughmore is Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
with the "Druids" being formed in 2004. Hare Coursing
Hare coursing
Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with greyhounds and other sighthounds, which chase the hare by sight and not by scent. It is a competitive sport, in which dogs are tested on their ability to run, overtake and turn a hare, rather than a form of hunting aiming at the capture of game. It has a...
, Road Bowling
Irish Road Bowling
Irish road bowling is an ancient sport. It is centered in Ireland - primarily in County Armagh and County Cork. However, it also has players in Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, New York, and Bennington, Vermont, vicinity; Traverse City, Michigan; the Bronx, New York; New Zealand; Asheville, North...
and Set dancing
Set dance
Set dancing, sometimes called "country sets", are a popular form of folk dancing in Ireland. Set dances are based on quadrilles. The latter were court dances which were transformed by the Irish into a unique folk dance of the Irish rural communities...
also take place in Donoughmore.
Other notable facts
- The Earl of DonoughmoreEarl of DonoughmoreEarl of Donoughmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Viscount Donoughmore, with remainder to the heirs male of his mother. He was a General in the British Army and sat in the House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative...
, an earlEarlAn earl is a member of the nobility. The title is Anglo-Saxon, akin to the Scandinavian form jarl, and meant "chieftain", particularly a chieftain set to rule a territory in a king's stead. In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages and was replaced with duke...
in the British peeragePeerageThe Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...
system, takes his name from Donoughmore. The story is that Francis Hely of neighbouring Kilshannig conformed to the Established religionChurch of IrelandThe Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. The church operates in all parts of Ireland and is the second largest religious body on the island after the Roman Catholic Church...
, after doing so he was able to marry a Protestant woman named Prudence Earbery, the daughter of Mathias Earbery a leaseowner in Donoughmore. Their son John Hely married a woman by the name of Christina NixonChristiana Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Baroness DonoughmoreChristiana Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Baroness Donoughmore was a suo jure hereditary peer; as a lady, however, she was unable to sit in the Irish House of Lords....
who was an heiress to her grand-uncle Richard Hutchinson. After marriage he took the name of John Hely-Hutchinson. He became a politician and provost of Trinity College Dublin. Using his position he got his wife a peerage and she took the name of his homeland as her title even though she did not live there but in Knocklofty, TipperaryTipperaryTipperary is a town and a civil parish in South Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 4,415 at the 2006 census. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam....
. She became BaronessBaronessBaroness is the female equivalent of the nobility title Baron.Baroness or The Baroness may also refer to:* Baroness , a metal band from Savannah, Georgia* Baroness , a fictional villain in the G.I...
Donoughmore of Knocklofty and her son Richard Hely-HutchinsonRichard Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of DonoughmoreRichard Hely Hely-Hutchinson, 1st Earl of Donoughmore , styled The Honourable Richard Hely-Hutchinson from 1783 to 1788, was an Irish peer and politician....
became the first BaronBaronBaron is a title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman"...
Donoughmore and later after supporting the Act Of UnionAct of Union 1800The Acts of Union 1800 describe two complementary Acts, namely:* the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and...
he became the Earl. The current Earl lives in Brampton England. - Although the aforementioned Church of Ireland church is now gone, the title of PrebendaryPrebendaryA prebendary is a post connected to an Anglican or Catholic cathedral or collegiate church and is a type of canon. Prebendaries have a role in the administration of the cathedral...
of Donoughmore still exists. The current prebendary is Revd George P. St J. Hilliard, chaplain to the University College Cork. - In the Irish Census system the smallest unit of area that data is collected for is called an "electoral division". In urban area's these "ed's" can be drawn up arbitrarily but in rural contexts they are usually calculated by grouping townland's together. Donoughmore consists of 3 electoral divisions and they are called Firmount(No:89), Gowlane(No:207) and Kilcullen(No:211). The 2006 population of Donoughmore was therefore 2392 an increase of 16% since 2002. The size of Donoughmore is stated as 22309 Acres or 9028 Hectares.
- Donoughmore was formerly linked with Cork by the narrow gauge Cork and Muskerry Light RailwayCork and Muskerry Light RailwayThe Cork and Muskerry Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in County Cork, Ireland. The first part of the railway opened in 1887 and closed in 1934. A major reason for building the railway was to exploit tourist traffic to Blarney Castle.-Initial route:...
. The Donoughmore line opened in 1893 but closed in 1934. - The Rathcoola Residency was an art programme for established Australian or New Zealand writers or artists where successful applicants received AUS$20,000 and six months accommodation at Rathcoola House in Donoughmore on condition that after the six months one piece of literature or art must be donated to the trust that runs the residency.
- In 2007 Donald AttigDonald AttigDonald Attig is an inventor, boat designer, entrepreneur, yachtsman and adventurer.-Biography:...
, a resident of Donoughmore , along with Jack Donovan of BallincolligBallincolligBallincollig is a satellite town in County Cork, Ireland, approximately 9 km west of Cork city. It is located beside the River Lee on the R608 regional road. In 2006 the population of Ballincollig DED was 16,308. The nearest towns include: Ballinora, Ovens, Killumney, Inniscarra, Blarney ,...
set records for the first transit of the River ShannonRiver ShannonThe River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland at . It divides the west of Ireland from the east and south . County Clare, being west of the Shannon but part of the province of Munster, is the major exception...
Navigation in an engineless live aboard Pleasure Boat. In 2008 Attig established new Benchmark Records by being the first person to complete the Shannon Navigation single handed in a live aboard pleasure boat. - Donoughmore is like most of county cork in the South Western River basin district. Within this district it is in the Lower LeeRiver Lee (Ireland)The Lee is a river in Ireland. It rises in the Shehy Mountains on the western border of County Cork and flows eastwards through Cork City, where it splits in two for a short distance, creating an island on which Cork's city centre is built, and empties into the Celtic Sea at Cork Harbour on the...
- OwenboyRiver OwenabueThe River Owenabue , also spelled "Owenboy", begins just north of Crossbarry and flows east towards the sea for roughly 20 miles or 32 kilometres. It flows through Crossbarry and on to the small village of Halfway. It then reaches Ballinhassig where it widens into Ballygarvan. It then meanders...
Water Management Unit. - Donoughmore lies partly in the Boggeragh Mountain rangeBoggeragh MountainsThe Boggeragh Mountains are located in County Cork, Ireland, the Munster Blackwater is north and the River Lee south of the hills. With an elevation of 643m , the highest peak is Musheramore ....
. Uctough and Knockagoun are the only two mountains from the range that are in Donoughmore. Uctough 's peak at 383m is within the parish bounds, whilst Knockagoun 's peak is outside the parish bounds, within the parish it reaches between 380m - 386m .
Places of note
- The village of Stuake lies at the north end of the parish.
- There are a number of stone age structures in Donoughmore. Mostly standing stones and ring forts. Some of the stones have examples of the OghamOghamOgham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language, and occasionally the Brythonic language. Ogham is sometimes called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", based on a High Medieval Bríatharogam tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters.There are roughly...
script engraved on them. - Donoughmore is subdivided into townlands. The following list is from biggest to smallest. There are 40 townlands in total. Barrahaurin, Gowlane North, Pluckanes North, Meenahony, Kilcullen South, Coolmona, Kilcullen North, Ahadillane, Garraun North, Ballygirriha, Fornaght, Ballycunningham, Derry, Gowlane South, Coollicka, Garraun South, Killeenleigh, Lackabane, Rathcoola East, Rathcoola West, Garraunredmond, Commeenaplaw, Bunkilla, Monataggart, Kilmartin Lower, Pluckanes East, Pluckanes West, Knockanare, Kilmartin Upper, Knockyrourke, Curragh, Ballykerwick, Firmount, Ballycraheen, Scarteen, Knockane, Monavanshere, Pluckanes South, Ballyhennessy, Ballyvodane.