Inchigeelagh () is a small village, townland and
civil parish in
County Cork,
Ireland. The village is just outside a
Gaeltacht area. Inchigeelagh is part of the
Dáil constituency of
Cork North-West
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Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
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.
The
River Lee passes through the village. The nearby 'pater noster' string of lakes collectively known as
Lough Allua were once popular with anglers and are now fished for large pike, perch and some brown trout. The decline of fishing has coincided with the loss of salmon on the River Lee following the erection of the
Carrigadrohid and
Inniscarra hydroelectric dams down-river between 1952 and 1957. This led to the subsequent decline in the fortunes of the village as a location for angling.
A hotel was built in 1810 to serve the horse-drawn coaches of tourists travelling the Prince of Wales route to
Kenmare and
Killarney. It operated as The Lake Hotel (though it never had a view of the lake) until it closed in 2014. Another hotel was built across the street as Corcoran's Hotel but it became Creedon's Hotel and is now run by the fourth generation of the Creedon family. Efforts have been made to campaign for works to be done on the two dams that prevent salmon from accessing the Lee river's upper reaches and a 2015 documentary, titled ''River Runner'', publicised the issues of the river.
Inchigeelagh was the meeting place for the Lyre Company
Irish Volunteers, in April 1916, from where they intended to collect some of the rifles sent by
Roger Casement on board the ship ''
Aud'' for use in the
1916 Easter Rising
The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a ...
. However, the ship was captured by the British Navy before it could deliver the arms.
People
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Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire (1774–c.1848), a composer of
oral poetry
Oral poetry is a form of poetry that is composed and transmitted without the aid of writing. The complex relationships between written and spoken literature in some societies can make this definition hard to maintain.
Background
Oral poetry is ...
in
Munster Irish, is buried in Inchigeelah
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Chris Óg Jones (b.1998), Gaelic footballer
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Cathal Vaughan (b.1994), Gaelic footballer
Gallery
File:County Cork - St Finbarr's Church - 20170928183914.jpg, St Finbarr's Church
File:The Crannóg, Tir na Spideoge, Inchigeelagh - geograph.org.uk - 727054.jpg, Crannóg, Tir na Spideoge
File:Carrignacurra Castle, Inchigeelagh - geograph.org.uk - 734639.jpg, Carrignacurra Castle
File:Bridge over the River Lee, Inchigeelagh - geograph.org.uk - 1243044.jpg, Bridge over the Lee at Inchigeelagh
File:The old cemetery and church at Inchigeelagh - geograph.org.uk - 483716.jpg, Old cemetery and church at Inchigeelagh
References
Towns and villages in County Cork
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