Donoughmore

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Donoughmore Domnhnach mór

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WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 51.99° N 8.75° W Irish Grid Reference W487822
Town population:	no town in parish
Rural population:	not available
Elevation:	70+-398 m
County:	Cork
Province:	Munster

Coordinates: 51.99° N 8.75° W

Donoughmore is a parish in County Cork which lies 25 km west north west of Cork city in the Republic of Ireland. There are other Donoughmores in Ireland but this article will focus on the parish in Cork.

1 Education
2 Religion
3 Entertainment
4 Sport
5 Interesting Facts
6 Places of note
7 Sources and External links

[edit] Education

Donoughmore has two primary schools. Scoil Iósaif and St. Lachteen's.

[edit] Religion

Donoughmore has two functioning churches both of which are Roman Catholic St. Josephs and St. Lachteen's. A Protestant Church of Ireland church existed in the parish until the 1960's when it was deconsecrated. The building is now a garage. A plaque hung on the wall of the Garage commemorates this fact. At Donoughmore cross there is also the ruins of a very old church. Both the Protestant and Catholic churches are in the Diocese of Cloyne.

[edit] Entertainment

There are six public houses in Donoughmore at present. Their names are Josies, Barrys, The 909, Sullivans, Hoggys and Miheals

[edit] Sport

There are many sports played in Donoughmore. Arguably the most followed is the G.A.A.[1] which has Hurling and Gaelic Football teams of all ages and in both sexes. The Ladies' footballers have had success at the highest level, wining the Senior All-Ireland in 2001 and 2003 and being runners up once in 2004 [2]. In the men's, the footballers have been the most successful being the runners up in the Junior A Mid-Cork championship seven times in 1953,62,76,81,82,93 and 2000 but winning in 1983 and 1998 [3] [4]. In 1983 they went on to win that years County championship[5]. The Junior A Hurlers have reached the Mid-Cork final on three occasions in 1935,52 and 2001, losing each time [6] [7]. There is also a soccer team Donoughmore Athletic, a Basketball club, an Athletic club and a Tug-o-war Club. Hare Coursing and Road Bowling take place in the parish as well.

[edit] Interesting Facts

The Earl of Donoughmore, an Earl in the British system of peers takes his name from Donoughmore. The Story is that John Hely was a Catholic Gentleman of the time. He married a Protestant woman by the name of Catherine Nixon who was an heiress to her uncle Richard Hutchinson. After marriage he took the name of John Hely-Hutchinson. He became a politician and provost of Trinity College Dublin. Using his position he got his wife a peerage and she took the name of his homeland as her title even though she did not live there but in Knocklofty, Tipperary. She became Viscountess Donoughmore of Knocklofty and her son was the first Baron Donoughmore.[8] The current Earl lives in Brampton England.
Although the aforementioned Church of Ireland church is now gone, the title of Prebendary of Donoughmore still exists. The current prebendary is Revd George P. St J. Hilliard, chaplain to the University College Cork.[9]

[edit] Places of note

The village of Stuake lies at the north end of the parish.
There are a number of stone age structures in Donoughmore. Mostly standing stones and ring forts. Some of the stones have examples of the Ogham script engraved on them, the links provided have pictures and directions to some of these.[10] [11] [12]