These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
Baile na Martra· Irish · main form · validated name
Castlemartyr· English · main form
Place & story
A wide street and a weighing beam
Lewis's 1837 town consisted of a broad street between the Earl of Shannon's demesne and a bridge. Its market house had been built by Henry Boyle in 1757. Although regular markets had ceased, a beam and scales remained for weighing grain and other goods. Castlemartyr's corporation had formerly returned two members to the Irish parliament, until the Union ended that representation.[2]
People & connections
Richard Alfred Millikin's birthplace
The writer Richard Alfred Millikin was born in Castlemartyr in 1767. His works included The River Side and the much better-known Groves of Blarney. Lewis singled him out in the town's entry, placing a literary association alongside its history of charters, estate ownership and military conflict. Millikin's song helped spread the fame of another Cork landscape far beyond its locality.[2]
Henry Boyle's mansion
Lewis described the Earl of Shannon's mansion as a central block with a portico and two extensive wings. Its grounds included lakes, canals, woodland walks and gardens of unusual plants. The ruins of the Fitzgerald castle stood within this carefully arranged landscape, making an older stronghold part of the outlook from a later country house.[2]
The estate's continuing landscape
The manor house now forms part of Castlemartyr Resort. Its grounds retain streams, a lake, woodland and formal garden areas, including reconstructed classical parterre beds. The house and the older castle ruins remain distinct elements of the estate. Together they make the succession from fortified residence to landscaped country seat visible beside the village.[3]
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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Castlemartyr — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Castlemartyr, Cork — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Castlemartyr, Cork — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Castlemartyr, Cork — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Castlemartyr, Cork
Published census settlement populations
1,600people · 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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