Canovee Gaelic Footballers
Canovee is the name of a rural region and a village nucleus in the River Lee, Lee valley in County Cork, Ireland. The toponym 'Canovee' is synonymous with the official version Cannaway (as in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Cannaway), and the Electoral division (Ireland), electoral division of Cannaway. Geography "Island" of Canavoy Canovee has sometimes been referred to as an 'island', because most of the parish's boundaries are formed by bodies of water. For example, the River Lee (Ireland), River Lee constituting its north-eastern, northern and north-western borders, the Kame River and one of its tributaries lie to the east, and the Aghthying Stream is to the west. Civil parish of Cannaway The civil parish of Cannaway corresponds to the 'Island of Canavoy'. Civil parishes were ecclesiastical units of territory based on Gaelic tuatha, or early Christian and monastic settlements from the 12th century. They were later adopted by the Church of Ireland, and sub ...
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