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Conna

Village in County Cork, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Cork, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Conna
native_name	Conaithe
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Conna_Castle.jpg
image_caption	Conna Castle viewed from the east
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	top
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Munster
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	County Cork
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	609
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates

Conna () is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is situated on the River Bride, southeast of the town of Fermoy, on the R628 regional road. The village contains several pubs, a shop, a post office, a Roman Catholic church (built ) and a nearby Church of Ireland chapel. The village is dominated by Conna Castle, a five-story tower house situated on a limestone outcrop near the river.

History

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ringfort, standing stone and fulacht fiadh sites in the townlands of Conna, Clashaganniv, Curraheen and Kilclare.

During the mid-16th century, the Fitzgeralds, Earls of Desmond, built Conna Castle on a high limestone rock overlooking the River Bride. The castle and its estate was seized by the English and passed into the hands of Walter Raleigh, the English settler. The rightful heir to the castle, James FitzThomas (the Sugán Earl) staged an unsuccessful attempt to capture the castle. The castle then went through a series of different owners before ending up in the hands of the Earl of Cork. It is believed that Oliver Cromwell passed by the castle and fired cannons at it before moving on. In 1653, the castle suffered a fire in which three of the steward's daughters were killed. The castle continued to move from owner to owner until Hilary L'Estrange purchased the castle in 1851. He passed it on to his son, Rev A. G. K. L'Estrange, on whose death in 1915, the castle was willed into the care of the state.

Notable people

Liam Kearney (born 1983), professional footballer and coach
Angela Lansbury (1925–2022), actor and producer, moved to the area with her husband Peter Shaw and lived in a 19th-century farmhouse named Knockmourne Glebe.
Bartholomew MacCarthy (1843–1904), Irish historian

References

"Census Interactive Map – Towns: Conna". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
"Conaithe / Conna". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Saint Catherine's Church, Conna, Cork". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
(1994). "Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East And South Cork". Government Stationery Office.
(15 February 1862). "Conna Castle".
"Things to see or do - Conna Castle".
Coleman, James. (1915). "Conna Castle". Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.
(7 January 2021). "Liam Kearney back at Cork City as club's Head of Academy". Irish Examiner.
(1999). "Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury". Little, Brown & Company.
{{Cite CE1913

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