Shanballymore

Shanballymore

Shanballymore on the map of Ireland

Shanballymore ( Irish An Seanbhaile Mór , "the great old town") is a town in the north of County Cork , Republic of Ireland with 553 inhabitants (as of the 2006 census). Shanballymore is on the main Mallow to Mitchelstown road . The neighboring towns are Doneraile , Kildorrery and Castletownroche .

Sights and history

The Castle

The Shanballymore area is home to many prehistoric ground monuments , including a stone chest in Shanballymore Upper where the remains of four Bronze Age people were discovered in 1977 and several Bronze Age Burnt Mounds in Carrigleagh and Dannanstown.

The ring forts at Poulleagh, Shanballymore Upper, Clogher and Carrigaunroe date from the 6th to 10th centuries AD .

In Ballinamona, on the north bank of the River Awbeg , there is a tower house that was built as a fortified residence in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. From a former Templar church from the Middle Ages , only the south wall has been preserved. This wall is surrounded by a cemetery, the time of which also dates back to the Middle Ages. There are numerous gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries in the cemetery.

In the south of the village on the banks of the River Awbeg are the ruins of the Dannanstown Mill, a remnant of the agricultural tradition of this area. From 1929, a dairy cooperative also had its headquarters in Shanballymore, which was part of the cooperative system that flourished in the late 19th century . It was closed in 2003.

Personalities

The state philosopher and politician Edmund Burke (1729–1797) is said to be born here. Although Burke himself stated that he was born at Trinity College Dublin , the politician and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien took up in a biography the view traditional in the Blackwater Valley that Edmund Burke was born in the house of his mother's brother, James Nagle.

The poet Edmund Spenser (1529-1599), who lived nearby at Kilcolman Castle in Doneraile , claimed farmland in Shanballymore, but lost in 1594 the trial of the land against the landowner Maurice Roche, 6th Viscount Fermoy .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ballyhoura Historical & Archaeological Sites ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Rural Communities ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Cork County Council website 
3. ^ Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke. Minerva, 1992, p. 14, ISBN 0-226-61651-7
4. ↑ Thomas Duddy: A history of Irish thought. Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2002, p. 188, ISBN 0-415-20692-8
5. ^ Francis J. Child: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Reprint from 1860, Bibliobazaar, 2009, page 41, ISBN 1-115-96144-6

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′  N , 8 ° 29 ′  W