Knocknagree (; the hill of the horse stud) is located in the north-west of

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. Located on the R582 (

Ballydesmond Ballydesmond (), formerly Kingwilliamstown, is a rural village in County Cork, Ireland. It lies on the Blackwater River (near its source in Menganine) on the Cork-Kerry border. The Ballydesmond quarry is an area of geological interest, containi ...

Macroom Macroom (; ga, Maigh Chromtha) is a market town in County Cork, Ireland, located in the valley of the River Sullane, halfway between Cork city and Killarney. Its population has grown and receded over the centuries as it went through periods of ...

) regional road it is 5 km north of Rathmore. It is approximately one mile from the Cork-

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border, and looks south towards the

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. Across the Blackwater River is

Gneeveguilla Gneeveguilla, ( ), officially Gneevgullia (), is a small village in the Sliabh Luachra region of East County Kerry, Ireland. It lies about east of Killarney, close to the County Kerry/County Cork border. Location Gneeveguilla is situated in ...

, one of the nearest villages on the other side of border with

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. Knocknagree is within the

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. The village had, in 2004 and 2005, seen extensive redevelopment on the expansive "Fairfield" or Village Green. Before the advent of the modern cattle-mart, this green was the venue of one of the largest livestock markets in Munster. The monthly "fair", as it was known, died out in the 1970s. The village is near the southern edge of the area known as

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History

On 7 February 1921, Michael J. Kelleher, aged 14, who while playing with other boys of his own age, ran away on the approach of military lorries and was shot dead. Two other boys, aged 8 and 11 years, were wounded. The eighteenth-century poet

Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin (174829 June 1784), anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan ("Red Owen"), was an Irish poet. He is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" p ...

died here.Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin: aspects of his life and work
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Knocknagree Community
Towns and villages in County Cork

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