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Glanworth
Glanworth () is a village on the R512 road (Ireland), R512 regional road in County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately northwest of the town of Fermoy and northeast of Cork (city), Cork city. As of 2016, Glanworth's population was 603. Glanworth has a Roman Catholic Church (building), church, a school, one shop and four pubs. The village is locally known as 'The Harbour', this is believed to stem from the Latin word, arbor, meaning tree. Glanworth is within the Cork East (Dáil constituency), Cork East Dáil constituency. Built heritage Labbacallee megalithic tomb Dated to the early Bronze age, Labbacallee wedge tomb is located from Glanworth and is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland. Glanworth Castle The 13th-century Glanworth Castle was built beside the River Funshion by the Condon (surname), Condon family, Normans, Norman settlers who arrived in the Cork area in the twelfth century. The keep and the castle wall remain. The castle is now used mainly as a public walk. Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glanworth Castle, Co
Glanworth () is a village on the R512 road (Ireland), R512 regional road in County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately northwest of the town of Fermoy and northeast of Cork (city), Cork city. As of 2016, Glanworth's population was 603. Glanworth has a Roman Catholic Church (building), church, a school, one shop and four pubs. The village is locally known as 'The Harbour', this is believed to stem from the Latin word, arbor, meaning tree. Glanworth is within the Cork East (Dáil constituency), Cork East Dáil constituency. Built heritage Labbacallee megalithic tomb Dated to the early Bronze age, Labbacallee wedge tomb is located from Glanworth and is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland. Glanworth Castle The 13th-century Glanworth Castle was built beside the River Funshion by the Condon (surname), Condon family, Normans, Norman settlers who arrived in the Cork area in the twelfth century. The keep and the castle wall remain. The castle is now used mainly as a public walk. Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glanworth Castle
Glanworth () is a village on the R512 regional road in County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately northwest of the town of Fermoy and northeast of Cork city. As of 2016, Glanworth's population was 603. Glanworth has a Roman Catholic church, a school, one shop and four pubs. The village is locally known as 'The Harbour', this is believed to stem from the Latin word, arbor, meaning tree. Glanworth is within the Cork East Dáil constituency. Built heritage Labbacallee megalithic tomb Dated to the early Bronze age, Labbacallee wedge tomb is located from Glanworth and is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland. Glanworth Castle The 13th-century Glanworth Castle was built beside the River Funshion by the Condon family, Norman settlers who arrived in the Cork area in the twelfth century. The keep and the castle wall remain. The castle is now used mainly as a public walk. Glanworth Abbey Glanworth Abbey was also built in the 13th century, next to the castle, by the Dominican order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glanworth Bridge - Geograph
Glanworth () is a village on the R512 regional road in County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately northwest of the town of Fermoy and northeast of Cork city. As of 2016, Glanworth's population was 603. Glanworth has a Roman Catholic church, a school, one shop and four pubs. The village is locally known as 'The Harbour', this is believed to stem from the Latin word, arbor, meaning tree. Glanworth is within the Cork East Dáil constituency. Built heritage Labbacallee megalithic tomb Dated to the early Bronze age, Labbacallee wedge tomb is located from Glanworth and is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland. Glanworth Castle The 13th-century Glanworth Castle was built beside the River Funshion by the Condon family, Norman settlers who arrived in the Cork area in the twelfth century. The keep and the castle wall remain. The castle is now used mainly as a public walk. Glanworth Abbey Glanworth Abbey was also built in the 13th century, next to the castle, by the Dominican order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork Junior A Football Championship
The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by the top-ranking junior clubs in the county of Cork in Ireland. It is the fifth tier overall in the entire Cork football championship system. The Cork Junior Championship was introduced in 1895 as a countywide competition for teams deemed not eligible for the senior grade or second-string senior teams. At the time of its creation it was the second tier of Cork football. In its current format, the Cork Junior A Championship begins in September following the completion of the eight Divisional Junior Championships. The 8 participating teams compete in a single-elimination tournament which culminates with the final match at Páirc Uí Rinn in October or November. The winner of the Cork Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork East (Dáil Constituency)
Cork East is a parliamentary constituency in County Cork represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). History and boundaries The constituency was first created in 1923 under the Electoral Act 1923 as a 4-seat constituency and was first used for the 1923 general election. It was abolished under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935. It was recreated under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 as a 3-seat constituency and used for the 1948 general election until it was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961. It was recreated under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 as a 4-seat constituency for the 1981 general election, and has been used at all elections since then. The constituency runs from Mitchelstown and Mallow in the north of County Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glanworth GAA
Glanworth GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in competitions organized by the Cork GAA county board and the Avondhu GAA divisional board. The club plays under the name Glanworth in Gaelic football, and under the name Harbour Rovers in hurling. The club has traditionally been most successful in football. As of 2015, the club played in the Cork Intermediate Football Championship, and in the North Cork Premier Junior Hurling Championship. Achievements * Cork Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1976 * Cork Junior A Football Championship (3): 1954, 1971, 2009 * Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (0): Runners-Up 2020 * Cork Minor Football Championship (2): 1966, 1967 * Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (1): 2001 * Cork Minor C Hurling Championship (1): 2000 * North Cork Junior A Football Championship (13): 1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1971, 2006, 2008, 2009 * North Cork Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Funshion
The River Funshion (; ga, Abhainn na Fuinseann) is a river in Munster, Ireland, a tributary of the Munster Blackwater. Course The River Funshion rises in the Galtee Mountains at Kilbeheny, near the County Limerick–County Tipperary border. It flows southwards past Galtee Castle and under the M8, crossing the R639. It then flows westwards and forms part of the County Limerick–County Cork border, passing under the M8 again, and the R639 at Kilbeheny. It flows westwards through Mitchelstown Golf Club, north of the town. The Funshion passes under the N73 near Kildorrery, flowing southeast through Glanworth and again under the M8 and R639, draining into the Munster Blackwater about 3.5 km (2 mi) downriver of Fermoy. Wildlife The River Funshion is a brown trout and salmon fishery. See also *Rivers of Ireland Shown here are all the major rivers and tributaries of Ireland with their lengths (in kilometres and miles). Starting with the Northern Ireland rivers, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labbacallee Wedge Tomb
Labbacallee wedge tomb () is a large pre-historic burial monument, located north-west of Fermoy and south-east of Glanworth, County Cork, Ireland. It is the largest Irish wedge tomb and dates from roughly 2300 BC. The tomb is a National Monument in State Care no. 318. It was the first megalithic tomb in the country to be described by an antiquarian writer, in John Aubrey’s manuscript of 1693. Features Labbacallee is the largest wedge tomb in Ireland. The tomb has three massive capstones, with the largest weighing 10 tonnes, and three large buttress stones at the back. The burial area consists of a long chamber, divided by a large vertical slab into two areas of unequal length. The eastern or inner end, when covered by the capstone, formed a sealed and self contained burial unit. The main chamber area, to the west, with two large capstones, was also sealed by a large ‘entrance’ stone. Access to both chambers was only possible by the removal of the end capstone. The galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermoy
Fermoy () is a town on the River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,500 people. It is located in the barony of Condons and Clangibbon, and is in the Dáil constituency of Cork East. The town's name comes from the Irish and refers to a Cistercian abbey founded in the 13th century. History Ancient The ringfort at Carntierna up on Corrin hill, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) south of Fermoy, was an important Iron Age site. Medieval times A Cistercian abbey was founded in Fermoy in the 13th century. At the dissolution of the monasteries during the Tudor period, the abbey and its lands passed through the following dynasties: Sir Richard Grenville, Robert Boyle and William Forward. However, the site could hardly have been regarded as a town and, by the late 18th century, was little more than a few cabins and an inn. 18th and 19th centuries In 1791, the lands around Fermoy were bought by a Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the football up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar , signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball under the crossbar into the net (the ball cannot be hand-passed into the goal), signalled by the umpire raising a green flag. Positions in Gaelic football are similar to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders. The association also promotes Irish music and dance, as well as the Irish language. As of 2014, the organisation had over 500,000 members worldwide, and declared total revenues of €65.6 million in 2017. The Games Administration Committee (GAC) of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) governing bodies organise the fixture list of Gaelic games within a GAA county or provincial councils. Gaelic football and hurling are the most popular activities promoted by the organisation, and the most popular sports in the Republic of Ireland in terms of attendances. Gaelic football is also the second most popular participation sport in Northern Ireland. The women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracery
Tracery is an architecture, architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone ''bars'' or ''ribs'' of Molding (decorative), moulding. Most commonly, it refers to the stonework elements that support the glass in a window. The term probably derives from the tracing floors on which the complex patterns of windows were laid out in late Gothic architecture. Tracery can also be found on the interior of buildings and the exterior. There are two main types: plate tracery and the later bar tracery.Hugh Honour, Honour, H. and J. Fleming, (2009) ''A World History of Art''. 7th edn. London: Laurence King Publishing, p. 948. The evolving style from Romanesque architecture, Romanesque to Gothic architecture and changing features, such as the thinning of lateral walls and enlarging of windows, led to the innovation of tracery. The earliest form of tracery, called plate tracery, began as openings that were pierced fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
