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Clonakilty GAA won their first adult hurling county title when they won the Cork Minor B Hurling Championship in 2007. Clonakilty R.F.C. also became a senior rugby club in 2001 and spent 12 years in the All-Ireland League until they were relegated to Division 1 of the Munster Junior League. Clonakilty A.F.C. won the Beamish Cup in 2008 & 1995 ...
Clonakilty 1798 Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Local veterans [20] Battle of Big Cross Memorial Clonakilty: Co. Cork: Battle of the Big Cross [21] Clonegal 1798 Memorial Clonegal: Co. Carlow: Local veterans [22] 1798 Memorial Castlebar: Co. Mayo: General war memorial [23] 1798 Memorial Clonmel: Co. Tipperary: General war memorial [24] 1799 ...
Map of West Cork. West Cork (Irish: Iarthar Chorcaí) [1] is a tourist region and municipal district in County Cork, Ireland.As a municipal district, West Cork falls within the administrative area of Cork County Council, [2] and includes the towns of Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen, and the 'key villages' of Baltimore, Ballydehob, Courtmacsherry ...
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The island was granted by Queen Elizabeth I to the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ross in 1584. During the Irish Confederate Wars, when a Protestant force led by Lord Forbes retook the town of Clonakilty from Catholic rebels in 1642, several hundred rebels fled towards the island to take refuge, but were caught and drowned in the rising tide before reaching Inchydoney.
The tree was famously used as a location in the 1990s film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, with the title character, played by Kevin Costner, evading enemies with the support of Morgan Freeman ...
The Coillte-owned forest at Gougane Barra was temporarily closed in 2014 to allow felling of 16,000 trees, mostly larches, infected with or susceptible to Phytophthora ramorum, a pathogen responsible for Sudden Oak Death. These trees were to be replaced with native species such as oak and Scots pine. [7]
Shannonvale or Shannon Vale is a small rural village near Clonakilty in County Cork, Ireland. [2] It lies in the civil parishes of Kilnagross and Templebryan. [3] Evidence of ancient settlement in the area include stone circle, ogham stone and bullaun stone sites in a large ecclesiastical enclosure in the townland of Templebryan North.