Rathcormac ()
is a small town in north
County Cork
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,
Ireland
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. Previously situated on the main
Cork
Cork or CORK may refer to:
Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
Places Ireland
* Cork (city)
** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...
to
Dublin
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road (the
N8), it was bypassed in 2006 by the
M8. The former N8 through the town's main street is now the
R639
The R639 road is one of Ireland's regional roads. Once designated the N8 national primary road (and before that some fractions were designated as the T6 and others as the T9), it was reclassified in stages as the R639 following the progress ...
regional road. Rathcormac is located in the
Blackwater Valley
Blackwater Valley is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Sandhurst in Berkshire and Blackwater in Hampshire.
The River Blackwater runs through the site, which also has wet valley alder wood, swamp and alluvial meadows. ...
region and is part of the
Cork East Dáil constituency.
History
The
Rathcormac massacre occurred at Bartlemy Cross southeast of Rathcormac on 18 December 1834, during the
Tithe War
The Tithe War ( ga, Cogadh na nDeachúna) was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority ...
.
Carntierna
Carntierna is a ringfort and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland.
Location
Carntierna is located atop Corrin Hill in the Nagle Mountains, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) south of Fermoy.
History and description
Carntierna was bui ...
, an Iron Age royal site, is located to the north.
Sports
Rathcormac is home to
Bride Rovers GAA club and Rathcormac Gun Club.
People
In 1842 the
Fenian
The word ''Fenian'' () served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood, secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries dedicated ...
and Australian architect,
Joseph Nunan, was born here.
Two Canadian politicians, Patrick Joseph (Joe) O'Flynn (1921) and Denis Christopher O'Flynn (1923), were born in Rathcormac to John Joseph O'Flynn and Mary Cahill. In 1925, The O'Flynn family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario Canada. When the family landed in Canada, they dropped the "O" and became Flynn.
Joe O'Flynn went on to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Kitchener, Ontario and Dennis O'Flynn (he changed the spelling) became Mayor of Etobicoke (a suburb of Toronto) and later was the Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto.
See also
*
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
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Towns and villages in County Cork