Rathcormac ()
is a small town in north
County Cork
County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...
, Ireland. Previously situated on the main
Cork
"Cork" or "CORK" may refer to:
Materials
* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
** Stopper (plug), or "cork", a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
*** Wine cork an item to seal or reseal wine
Places Ireland
* ...
to
Dublin
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road (the
N8), it was bypassed in 2006 by the
M8. The former N8 through the town's main street is now the
R639 regional road. Rathcormac is located in the Blackwater Valley region and is part of the
Cork East Dáil constituency.
History
The
Rathcormac massacre occurred at Bartlemy Cross southeast of Rathcormac on 18 December 1834, during the
Tithe War
The Tithe War () was a campaign of mainly nonviolent civil disobedience, punctuated by sporadic violent episodes, in Ireland between 1830 and 1836 in reaction to the enforcement of tithes on the Roman Catholic majority for the upkeep of the est ...
.
Carntierna, an Iron Age royal site, is located to the north.
Sports
Rathcormac is home to
Bride Rovers GAA club and Rathcormac Gun Club.
People
In 1842 the
Fenian
The word ''Fenian'' () served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood. They were secret political organisations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...
and Australian architect,
Joseph Nunan, was born here.
Two Canadian politicians,
Patrick Joseph (Joe) O'Flynn (1921) and
Denis Christopher O'Flynn (1923), were born in Rathcormac to John Joseph O'Flynn and Mary Cahill. In 1925, The O'Flynn family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario Canada. When the family landed in Canada, they dropped the "O" and became Flynn.
Joe O'Flynn went on to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Kitchener, Ontario and Dennis O'Flynn (he changed the spelling) became Mayor of Etobicoke (a suburb of Toronto) and later was the Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto.
See also
*
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
{{County Cork
Towns and villages in County Cork