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Buttevant ( or ''Ecclesia Tumulorum'' in the
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) is a medieval market town, incorporated by
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of
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, situated in North
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, Ireland. While there may be reason to suggest that the town may occupy the site of an earlier settlement of the Donegans, Carrig Donegan, the origins of the present town are clearly and distinctly
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, and closely connected with the settlement of the Barrys from the 13th century. Here they built their principal stronghold in North Cork. Buttevant is located on the
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between
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and
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and the R522 regional road. The Dublin–Cork
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passes by the town, but there was a station (now closed) from which at the outbreak of the
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in 1914, newly raised battalions of the
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and the
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who had completed their training at the local military barracks, set out for the Western Front. Buttevant is part of the Cork East Dáil constituency.


Origins of the name

The
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family motto is ''Boutez-en-Avant''. ''Rotulus Pipae Cloynensis'' (1364) makes ten references to ''Bothon'' in its Latin text. The ''Lateran Registers'' record the name ''tempore''
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as ''Bottoniam'' (7 March 1489) and ''Buttumam'' (3 June 1492); and ''tempore''
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in various forms: as "Bothaniam" (14 February 1499), "Betomam" (12 March 1499), and "Buttomam" (15 January 1500).
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, in ''Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'' (1595), gives an early example of the modern name and associates it with ''Mullagh'', his name for the river Awbeg: :"Old father Mole, (Mole hight that mountain grey :That walls the Northside of Armulla dale) :He had a daughter fresh as floure of May, :VVhich gaue that name vnto that pleasant vale; :Mulla the daughter of oldMole, so hight :The Nimph, which of that water course has charge, :That springing out of Mole, doth run downe right :to Butteuant where spreading forth at large, :It giueth name vnto that auncient Cittie, :VVhich Kilnemullah cleped is of old: :VVhose ragged ruines breed great ruth and pittie, :To travellers, which it from far behold" The ''Bibliothèque Royale'' in Brussels contains the manuscript of Father Donatus Mooney's report on the Irish Province of the Franciscans compiled in 1617/1618 in which he notes that the place "is called 'Buttyfanie' and, in Irish, 'Kilnamullagh' or 'Killnamallagh'".
Philip O'Sullivan Beare Philip O'Sullivan Beare ( ga, Pilib Ó Súilleabháin Béirre, 1590–1660) was an Irish soldier who became more famous as a writer. He fled to Habsburg Spain during the time of Tyrone's Rebellion, when Gaelic Ireland was making its last stand ...
in his ''Historiae Catholicae Iberniae'', published in Spain in 1620, gives the name 'Killnamollacham' for the town and translates it into Latin as 'Ecclesia Tumulorum'. The 1st Duke of Ormonde refers to "Buttiphante" in a letter of January 1684 ( Carte Manuscripts,
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, 161, f. 47v), while Sir John Percival, progenitor of the Earls of Egmont, recorderd in his diary for 16 March 1686 that the troopers "being att Buttevant Fair this day took Will Tirry and his wife and brought them hither and I examined them". The Irish denomination for Buttevant has reached such a degree of confusion as to make it almost unidentifiable. The oral tradition of the area consistently gives ''Cill na Mullach'', or 'Church of the Hillocks', for Buttevant. When the area was still largely Irish speaking, that tradition was recorded by O'Donovan in the field books of the General Survey of Valuation,
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, which was taken in the Barony of Orrery and Kilmore ''ante'' 1850.
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confirms the tradition in his ''Mo Scéal Féin''. That notwithstanding, several other names have insistently been assigned to Buttevant by Irish Government officialdom: ''Cill na mBeallach'', ''Cill na Mollach'', and more recently ''Cill na Mallach'' by the Placenames Commission, explaining eruditely that it may signify ''The Church of the Curse'', for which, the general public can be excused for thinking the commission were referring to nearby ''Killmallock''.
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in his ''The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places'', published in Dublin in 1871, dismisses as erroneous and an invention of later times, the theory that the Irish name for Buttevant meant the Church of the Curse, and cites the Four Masters noting that a Franciscan Friary was founded at ''Cill na Mullach'' in 1251. The name Buttevant is reportedly a corruption of the motto of the
de Barry family The de Barry family is a noble family of Cambro-Norman origins which held extensive land holdings in Wales and Ireland. The founder of the family was a Norman Knight, Odo, who assisted in the Norman Conquest of England during the 11th century. ...
. On the Barry coat of arms the inscription is "Butez en Avant" - Strike/Kick/Push Forward—or, more colloquially, "Bash your way forward."


History

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, by grant of 26 September 1234, conceded a market at Buttevant to David Og de Barry to be held on Sundays, and a fair on the vigil and day of
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the Evangelist (17 October and 18 October), and on six subsequent days. This was done to further the economic prosperity of the borough and connected with a widespread network of such markets and fairs which indicate "an extensive network of commercial traffic and an important part of the infrastructure of the growing agrarian and mercantile economy". The most important markets and all fairs were associated with the major boroughs and can be used as a gauge of their economic and social significance as also the 1301
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proceedings in Cork at which John de Barry "claimed the basic baronial jurisdiction of
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, infangetheof, '' vetitia namia'' and fines for shedding blood (where 'Englishmen' were involved) in his manors of Buttevant,
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,
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and Lislee". The town of Buttevant accumulated a series of such grants over several centuries. Fairs and markets were held at Buttevant for cattle sheep and pigs on 23 January, 30 April, 27 May, 27 August and 21 November. Cattle and sheep fairs were held on 27 March, 14 October, 17 December. Pig markets were held on 11 July. Fairs falling on Saturdays were held on Mondays. Fridays were devoted to egg markets. Horse fairs were held on the Fourth Monday in October.
Cahirmee Horse Fair Cahirmee Horse Fair is held on 12 July every year (except 1915–1918, 1940–1945 & 2020-2021) in the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. The ancient horse fair was originally held at the Fair Field of Cahirmee, some two miles to the east o ...
, the only surviving fair, is held on 12 July. The development of the settlement followed a pattern frequently repeated in the Norman colonies of North Cork and
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. The original nucleus of the town consisted of a keep situated on an elevation on the south side of the town. Opposite the keep, on a pre-Norman site, was built the parish church, dedicated to St. Brigit, sister of St. Colman of Cloyne. A mill, another characteristic element of Norman settlements, was located on the river, to the north of the keep. In addition, a hospice for lepers was established about a mile to the North East outside of the town wall. This basic structure was repeated in nearby
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, where it is still clearly to be seen, in
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, Mallow, and in
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and Adare. A further feature of Norman settlements in North Cork was their concomitant religious foundations. Early colonial sites, such as Buttevant and Castletownroche, saw the introduction of the more traditional monastic communities which were housed in foundations outside of the town walls. The
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priories of
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(''ante'' 1216) and Ballybeg (1229) being respectively founded by the Roches and the de Barry contiguous to the settlements of Castletownroche and Buttevant. With the rise of the new mendicant orders, essentially urban in character and mission, the Norman settlements saw the foundation of mendicant houses within the town walls as with the
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in Buttevant (1251), and the Dominicans in Kilmallock (1291) and Glanworth (c. 1300). The
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of Buttevant developed to the north of the keep and eventually increased in size to about enclosed by walls for which
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grants had been made by the crown in 1317. The native inhabitants were excluded from residence within the walled area and confined to a quarter of their own to the north west of the walled town. A bridge, still extant, was built over the river
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around 1250. In 1317, the 11th. of
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, John fitz David de Barry requested and obtained from the
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a grant of £105 for the commonality and town of Buttevant for its walling. A further grant was made on 6 August 1375, the 49th. of Edward III, to the provost and commonality of the town together with the customs of its North Gate. The
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originated in 1752 as a result of a horse race from the steeple of Buttevant Protestant church to that of
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, four miles (6 km) away.


Ballybeg Priory


Franciscan friary

The Franciscan friary is situated beside the church in Buttevant Main Street and is near the
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.


Cahirmee horse fair


Buttevant Military Barracks

Buttevant barracks was a 19th century military barracks. The barracks is listed in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Buttevant military barracks was built in 1812, when the owner of
Buttevant castle Buttevant ( or ''Ecclesia Tumulorum'' in the Latin) is a medieval market town, incorporated by charter of Edward III, situated in North County Cork, Ireland. While there may be reason to suggest that the town may occupy the site of an earl ...
, John Anderson gifted 23 acres of land in Buttevant to the British Army for the purpose of the construction of a military barracks. Construction of the barracks took nearly three years to complete. The barracks was divided into three quadrangles and hosted an extensive range of buildings and facilities, including a gymnasium, training field, church, school, stables and a parade ground. At any one time the barracks was home to hundreds of soldiers and could accommodate up to 800 soldiers and staff. The main gateway to the barracks was made from limestone and was constructed in the Neo gothic style. A guardhouse which was placed inside this gateway controlled access into the barracks. Michael Myers Shoemaker visited Buttevant barracks in 1908 and writes of his visit in his book, ''In Wondering in Ireland'' (1908). He wrote, '...these barracks at Buttevant are spacious and as barracks go, very comfortable.... The campus or compound, a great green square surrounded by the quarters....often with lawn tennis and cricket going on in its centre and there are always the officers wives and children giving the scene a touch of charm'. He continues by writing, 'on top of the entrance arch are the offices, on the right of the guardhouse and beyond it a large gymnasium. On either side of the green and running at right angles to the entrance are the officers' quarters. While a large barracks for the men forms the fourth side of the square. Back of this is another square, surrounded by a large barracks, while the married man have a separate building beyond these and the colonel lives in a retired pleasant house off in one corner'. Support required for the everyday running barracks was immense. The barracks provided important commerce for the town and it is estimated that up to the 20th century it is estimated that up to 70% of the towns income came from the barracks. Throughout
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thousands of men were processed through the barracks before being sent elsewhere. Later, during the
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the barracks was an important staging point for British forces. With the departure of British forces at the end of the Irish War of Independence, the barracks was abandoned. It was later temporarily occupied by both anti-treaty and pro-treaty parties and was eventually burned and destroyed during the
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. Today, evidence of the barracks is all but gone, with only an incomplete perimeter wall and the entrance to the barracks still remaining. The area where the barracks stood is now divided into three sections, one is occupied by
Buttevant GAA Buttevant GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. The club was founded in 1884 and fields teams in both Gaelic football and hurling. The club is a member of the Avondhu divisional b ...
and the two others are occupied by local businesses.


Literary history

Buttevant also has many literary associations: Edmund Spenser, from his manor at Kilcolman, referred to it and the gentle Mullagh (the
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) in ''The Faerie Queen '';
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passed through in his novel ''Castle Richmond'';
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
played a game of hurling there in his ''Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man''; the revered Canon Sheehan of Doneraile mentions Buttevant in several of his novels, not least in ''Glenanaar'' in the setting of the fatal events of the Fair of Rathclare; and
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mentions it in her elegiacal family history ''Bowen's Court''. Buttevant was the setting of the "''
Bunworth Banshee Reverend Charles Bunworth was an Irish harpist and the Church of Ireland rector of Buttevant, County Cork. Born in 1704, he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with an M.A. in Divinity Studies in 1730 and was ordained the following year. He w ...
''", a supernatural occurrence documented in
Thomas Crofton Croker Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 – 8 August 1854) was an Irish antiquary, best known for his ''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland'' (1825–1828), and who also showed considerable interest in Irish song and music. ...
's ''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825–1828)''. Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves, otherwise
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(1863–1932), the daughter of Major W.H. Graves and Antoinette Dean of Harwich, was born at Buttevant castle on 3 June 1863. She was cousin of
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, the father of the poet
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. Convent educated in
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, she converted to Catholicism and embarked on a literary career. She was a successful London and New York playwright who enjoyed considerable literary acclaim in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1911, under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan, she published ''The Dop Doctor'', which was made into a film in 1915 by
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. The film gave considerable offence in South Africa because if its harsh portrayal of English and Dutch characters. It was eventually banned under the
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. The story's protagonist is a drunken and disgraced doctor who eventually makes his way to South Africa where he redeems his honour at the siege of Mafeking. Albert Gérard, in his ''European-language writing in Sub Saharan Africa'' , regards the book's description of the siege of Mafeking "as a heroic justification of British Imperial strategy and the vindication of a belief in the righteousness and superiority of the British cause. The Dop Doctor contains pro-Jingo arguments of the type which offers the stereotypical portrait of the Boer as backward and despicably primitive, and the black man as a shadow figure behind the civilising foreground, an appendage of an argument over what to do with his labour". ''Between Two Thieves'' and ''One Braver Thing'' followed in 1914. In the
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, An tAthar Peadar Ó Laoghaire makes unflattering mention of garrisoned Buttevant in ''Mo Scéal Féin.'' The great Irish antiquarian of the 18th century, An tAthar Séamus Ó Conaire, one-time member of the
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, rests westward facing outside of the Friary portal.


Transport

Buttevant and Doneraile railway station opened on 17 March 1849, but finally closed on 7 March 1977. The
Buttevant Rail Disaster The Buttevant Rail Disaster was a train crash that occurred on 1 August 1980 at Buttevant Railway Station, County Cork, in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, from Dublin on the main line to Cork (city), Cork. More than 70 people were injured, and 1 ...
occurred on 1 August 1980. At 12:45 a
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express train from
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to
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entered Buttevant station at carrying some 230 Bank Holiday passengers. It careered into a siding and smashed into a stationary ballast train. The carriages immediately behind the engine and goods wagon jack-knifed and were thrown across four sets of rail-line. Two coaches and the dining car were totally demolished by the impact. It resulted in the deaths of 18 people and over 70 people being injured. 70% of Irish railway deaths over a 28-year period occurred as a result of this event (and the subsequent Cherryville junction accident which killed a further seven people). CIÉ and the Government came under severe public pressure to improve safety and to modernise the fleet. A major review of the national rail safety policy was held and resulted in the rapid elimination of the wooden-bodied coaches that had formed part of the train. On the twenty fifth anniversary of this accident, a commemorative service was held and a plaque in memory of the dead erected at Buttevant station. It was also featured on a documentary on Irish disasters on RTÉ television in 2008.


Media

The town received media attention in 2007, after being featured in the
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series ''
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''.


Sport

Buttevant GAA Buttevant GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland. The club was founded in 1884 and fields teams in both Gaelic football and hurling. The club is a member of the Avondhu divisional b ...
hosted Munster football championship games on and off until 1962.


See also

* List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Cork) * List of towns and villages in Ireland * Market Houses in Ireland


References


External links


Official Buttevant GAA Website
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