Carrigeen

Carrigeen
Carraigín
Village
Carrigeen is located in Ireland
Carrigeen
Carrigeen
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°16′16″N 7°12′58″W / 52.271°N 7.216°W / 52.271; -7.216
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Kilkenny
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Carrigeen (Irish: Carraigín, meaning 'little rock') is a village to the south-east of Mooncoin in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Carrigeen is situated on a hillock within the Suir Valley. Within the village is St. Kevin's Church (in the Catholic parish of Mooncoin) and a national (primary) school. The grounds of Carrigeen GAA club are nearby.

History

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of fulacht fiadh, megalithic tomb and ring barrow sites in the townlands of Luffany, Licketstown, Ballygorey, Ballinlough and Corluddy. Carrigeen village is also close to settlements at Licketstown and Glengrant, which date to Norman times.[citation needed]

Corluddy Castle lies southeast of Carrigeen village

Other local historic landmarks include Grannagh and Corluddy Castle (from Cor loda meaning 'round hill of the mine'). Corluddy Castle is a Norman-era tower house, the ruins of which are on a hill to the southeast of the village overlooking the River Suir. The Grant family, who were landlords of Glengrant townland, lived there until the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland (1649).

St. Kevin's Church in Carrigeen was built in 1893. It is one of three churches in the Catholic parish of Mooncoin, together with a church in Killinaspick and Mooncoin.

Geography

Field near Carrigeen village

Carrigeen is situated on a hillock within the Suir Valley. It overlooks parts of south County Kilkenny as well as Slievenamon, Tory Hill and the Comeragh Mountains.[citation needed]

Education

Carrigeen National School celebrated its centenary in September 2000. The national school is the third school to serve the area, with Clashroe and the present community hall adjoining the churchyard previously used as schools. Carrigeen may originally have had a hedge school at Portnascully (from Port na Scoile meaning 'moat of the school') where a travelling master may have taught.[citation needed] As of 2024, there were 124 pupils enrolled in Carrigeen National School.

Sport

Carrigeen GAA club was formed in 1954. Asper Park, the club grounds, was officially opened in 1991 by Paddy Buggy of Slieverue, former president of the GAA. Nickey Brennan, who was then president elect of the GAA, also attended the opening. Carrigeen play in black and amber stripes. As of 2019, the club was playing hurling in the Junior C grade.

See also

Further reading

  • Burke, Edmund (1833). Annual Register. London: Baldwin and Cradock. p. 132.
  • Tait, William (1833). Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Original from the University of Michigan: W. Tait.
  • Burke, Edmund (1833). A Cry to Ireland and the Empire (against the Repeal of the Union, and in Favor of a Legal Provision for the Poor). Original from the New York Public Library: J. Hatchard & Son.

References

  1. ↑ Record of Monuments and Places - County Kilkenny. Dublin: National Monuments and Historic Properties Service. 1996.
  2. ↑ "Appendix 1A - Catalogue of Archaeological Sites". N24 Mooncoin Bypass - Constraints Study Report - August 2001 (PDF) (Report). 2001 – via Kilkenny County Council.
  3. ↑ "Corluddy Castle, Co. Kilkenny". irishtowerhouses.ie. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  4. ↑ Carrigan, William (1905). "Curluddy". The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, Volume IV. pp. 161, 162 – via archive.org.
  5. ↑ O'Kelly, Owen (1985). The Place-Names of County Kilkenny. Boethius Press. ISBN 0-9501687-8-5 – via archive.org. [Corluddy Castle] belonged to the Grants until confiscated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Peter Grant, chief of the family, died 1510
  6. ↑ "Saint Kevin's Catholic Church, Corluddy, Carrigeen, Kilkenny". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Parishes - Mooncoin". ossory.ie. Roman Catholic Diocese of Ossory. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Carrigeen NS - About Our School". carrigeenns.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025. Carrigeen celebrated its Centenary in Sept 2000
  9. ↑ O'Kelly, Sheila (ed.). The Place-Names of County Kilkenny (PDF). Kilkenny Archaeological Society. p. 136. Portnascully, Port na scoile, fort of the school. Area 398 acres. The name is given as Poll na scoile in the Red Book of Ossory. There is no local tradition nor any historical record of any ancient school. The Port or Moat (30' high) is an immense circuit with a fosse [..] There is an area subject to flooding where the Portnascully river rising in Corluddy meets the Suir
  10. ↑ "Directory Page - Carigeen N S". gov.ie. Department of Education. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  11. 1 2 "Kilkenny Cats - Clubs - Carrigeen". kilkennycats.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008.
  12. ↑ Knox, John (24 January 2019). "In parish with two clubs, Mooncoin and Carrigeen officials meet". Kilkenny People. Retrieved 4 February 2025.