Doneraile
 
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Doneraile ( Irish : Dún ar Aill , castle on the rock) is a country town in the north of Cork County in the province of Munster in the south of the Republic of Ireland . Doneraile is about 12 km north of Mallow on the River Awbeg , a tributary of the Blackwater . Neighboring communities are Kildorrery , Castletownroche , Killavullen , Mallow and Buttevant . Doneraile had 780 inhabitants at the 2016 census.
Sights and history
The city lies on the northern slope of the Knockahur, which rises from the banks of the River Awbeg. Near the Oldcourt cemetery there was an old fortification on a rock called Dún ar Aill , ("Castle on the Rock").
In the unrest over Ireland's independence in 1598, Edmund Spenser's castle , Kilcolman Castle in Doneraile, went up in flames.
After the medieval Catholic parish church at Oldcourt Cemetery was destroyed in the Irish Rebellion in 1641 , Sir William St. Leger, Lord President of Munster , left a new church for the Protestant Church of Ireland in 1663 on the left bank of the Awbeg opposite his castle in Doneraile erect. It was not until 1826 to 1827 that a new Catholic parish church could be built according to the plans of the architect Michael Augustine Reardon.
The first documented steeplechase horse race took place in 1752 between Cornelius O'Callaghan and Mr. Edmund Blake over a distance of four miles (approx. 6 km) across country from the church tower in Buttevant to the church tower in Doneraile. The term steeplerace is derived from the English word steeple for “church tower”, but is only used on the European continent as a term for such hunting races on horseback.
Doneraile the first of the later successful agricultural and has 1,889 dairy cooperatives by Horace Plunkett founded.
Around Doneraile Court , the former residence of the St. Leger family, extends an approximately 166 hectares large landscape park , which in the 18th century in the style of the famous English landscape architect Capability Brown was created. Rare trees, water features and herds of red deer can be viewed here.
traffic connection
Doneraile is located on the R581 regional road about 8 km east of the National Primary Road N20 from Limerick to Cork .
Personalities
- Edmund Spenser (1529–1599), writer, described the area in his major work The Faerie Queene ; In 1586 Spenser had a large estate and was awarded Kilcolman Castle in Doneraile, but was driven out by Irish rebels in the Nine Years War in 1598
- Patrick Augustine Sheehan (1852–1913), writer and pastor of Doneraile, where he also died
- Thomas Croke (1824–1902), parish priest of Doneraile from 1865 to 1870, then Bishop of Auckland and from 1975 Archbishop of Cashel and Emly
- John B. Keane (1928–2002), writer, worked in the 1950s as an assistant to the pharmacist and antique dealer AH Jones and occasionally with the oil pumps in front of the city
Web links
- Doneraile in Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doneraile (Census Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on July 3, 2018
- ↑ J. Anthony Gaughan: Doneraile. Kamac, 1970
- ^ Doneraile Catholic Church
- ↑ Doneraile Wildlife Park ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Heritage Ireland
- ^ Herman Joseph Heuser: Canon Sheehan of Doneraile: The Story of an Irish Parish Priest, as Told Chiefly by Himself . Kressinger, 2007 ISBN 1-432-65343-1
- ↑ John B. Keane: Self Portrait. Mercier Press, 1964 ISBN 0-853-42091-2
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ N , 8 ° 35 ′ W