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Recorded forms
Carraig na bhFear· Irish · main form · validated name
Carrignavar· English · main form
Place & story
An old castle inside a later house
The University of Galway's Landed Estates survey identifies Carrignavar as a McCarthy family seat from the middle of the seventeenth century. The later castellated house incorporated remains of the earlier castle. Justin McCarthy junior occupied it at the time of Griffith's Valuation, when the buildings were valued at twenty-eight pounds. After ownership by John Sheedy in the twentieth century, it passed to the Sacred Heart Fathers in the 1950s and became part of their college complex. Its educational use followed a much longer residential history.[2]
People & connections
Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin’s handwritten books
Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin was born in Carrignavar in 1766. A self-taught scribe, he began copying manuscripts in houses around his parish during the 1780s, while also earning money through teaching and labouring. From 1822 he worked at Knockboy in Carrignavar parish, where a son had acquired a small farm. More than 150 surviving manuscripts contain some or all of his work. His career shows how literary preservation could depend on skilled local workers operating well beyond the walls of formal libraries.[3]
A travelling scribe settles in the parish
Mícheál Óg's father, Mícheál mac Peattair Ó Longáin, settled in Carrignavar parish during the 1760s after years of movement through Munster. His manuscript notes record commissions and journeys, including work for Catholic clergy and scholars. His copying included Geoffrey Keating's history, a medieval medical treatise and material prepared for Bishop John O'Brien. Carrignavar became one base within this wider network of patrons, travelling copyists and households. The varied subjects of his surviving books show how the same craftsman could preserve historical narrative, literature and specialist learning.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Carrignavar — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Carrignavar, Cork — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Carrignavar, Cork
Published census settlement populations
519people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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