Newcestown () is a small village located 35 km from the city of

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in the western part of

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. It is a village with a church, a school, a pub and GAA club. Newcestown is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West.

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The local

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church is the Church of St. John the Baptist. It was built in 1872 in a

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style. The nearby

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church is dedicated to St. Patrick and was built . The local national (primary) school is Bishop Galvin Central School, which is named for Bishop Edward J. Galvin, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Hanyang in China.

Sport

Newcestown GAA Newcestown GAA is a Gaelic football and hurling club based in the village of Newcestown in County Cork, Ireland. The club plays in the Carbery division of Cork GAA. History Founded in 1959, the club celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009. ...

is the local

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club. It was founded in 1959 and competes in both Senior hurling and Senior football competitions in Cork. The club won the

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in 1971, in 2001 and in 2010. In hurling, Newcestown were promoted to the

Cork Senior A Hurling Championship The Cork Senior A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Senior A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork SAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gae ...

grade in 2015, after defeating local rivals Valley Rovers in the 2015 Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship final. Soccer is another sport associated with the village. A local team, Spartak Mossgrove, was founded in 2015 and have been competing in the West Cork Soccer League since their foundation. The name of the team derives from the local townland 'Mossgrove' just outside the village. Their home colours are blue and white. Just outside the main village is an 18 hole

pitch and putt Pitch and putt is an amateur sport very similar to, and derived from, golf, where the hole length is typically up to and just 2–3 clubs are typically used. The game was organised and developed in Ireland during the early 20th century, befor ...

course.

People

Edward Galvin was born in Newcestown on 23 November 1882. He was ordained as a priest in

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, in 1909. Later becoming a bishop, Galvin is credited with being the founder of the

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and first Bishop of Hanyang, China. He was expelled from China in 1951, and he returned home in 1953 where he retired to Dalgan Park,

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. He died at St. Columbans College, Dalgan Park on 23 February 1956 and is buried there.

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