Charleville
| Charleville Ráth Luirc |
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 City center (2009) |
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| Coordinates: | 52 ° 21 ′ N , 8 ° 41 ′ W | |||
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| Province: | Muenster | |||
| County: | Cork | |||
| Height: | 104 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Residents: | 3919 (2016) | |||
Charleville ( Irish : Ráth Luirc or An Ráth ) is a country town in County Cork in the south-west of the Republic of Ireland . The official name of the city is Ráth Luirc , its population was 3919 at the 2016 census .
Emergence
Charleville was founded in 1661 by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery and named after King Charles II . The name Ráth Luirc , which is hardly used in common parlance , was given to the place in the 1920s by the Irish Free State , although An Ráth (Eng. "The Fortress") was the more frequently used Irish name.
Transport links
Charleville is located in the extreme north of County Cork, right on the border with County Limerick , north of Buttevant on the important national road N20 , which - as an extension of the N7 from Dublin - connects Limerick with Cork City . From Tipperary there is also a regional road through Charleville via Kanturk to the N72 between Mallow and Killarney in Kerry and the R515 to Newcastle West on the N21 in the southwest of Limerick County.
Charleville is on the InterCity main line Dublin – Cork of the Iarnród Éireann and on one of the busiest bus routes in Ireland from Galway via Limerick Town to Cork City, so that there are hourly connections with these cities during the day via Bus Éireann or JJ Kavanagh .
Personalities
- Patrick Leahy (1877-1926), track and field athlete
- Con Leahy (1876–1921), track and field athlete, high jump Olympic champion 1906, brother of Patrick Leahy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
- ↑ Rathluirc (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on September 11, 2017
