Carrigeen

Carrigeen (Irish: Carraigín, meaning 'little rock') is a village to the south-east of Mooncoin in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Carrigeen is situated on a hillock within the Suir Valley. Within the village is St. Kevin's Church (in the Catholic parish of Mooncoin) and a national (primary) school. The grounds of Carrigeen GAA club are nearby.

Carrigeen Carraigín
Village
Carrigeen Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°16′16″N 7°12′58″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Kilkenny
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

History

Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of fulacht fiadh, megalithic tomb and ring barrow sites in the townlands of Luffany, Licketstown, Ballygorey, Ballinlough and Corluddy.^[1][2] Carrigeen village is also close to settlements at Licketstown and Glengrant, which date to Norman times.^{[citation needed]}

Corluddy Castle lies southeast of Carrigeen village

Other local historic landmarks include Grannagh and Corluddy Castle (from Cor loda meaning 'round hill of the mine').^[3] Corluddy Castle is a Norman-era tower house, the ruins of which are on a hill to the southeast of the village overlooking the River Suir. The Grant family, who were landlords of Glengrant townland, lived there until the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland (1649).^[4][5]

St. Kevin's Church in Carrigeen was built in 1893.^[6] It is one of three churches in the Catholic parish of Mooncoin, together with a church in Killinaspick and Mooncoin.^[7]

Geography

Field near Carrigeen village

Carrigeen is situated on a hillock within the Suir Valley. It overlooks parts of south County Kilkenny as well as Slievenamon, Tory Hill and the Comeragh Mountains.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Carrigeen National School celebrated its centenary in September 2000.^[8] The national school is the third school to serve the area, with Clashroe and the present community hall adjoining the churchyard previously used as schools. Carrigeen may originally have had a hedge school at Portnascully (from Port na Scoile meaning 'moat of the school')^[9] where a travelling master may have taught.^{[citation needed]} As of 2024, there were 124 pupils enrolled in Carrigeen National School.^[10]

Sport

Carrigeen GAA club was formed in 1954. Asper Park, the club grounds, was officially opened in 1991 by Paddy Buggy of Slieverue, former president of the GAA.^[11] Nickey Brennan, who was then president elect of the GAA, also attended the opening.^[11] Carrigeen play in black and amber stripes. As of 2019, the club was playing hurling in the Junior C grade.^[12]

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

Further reading

• Burke, Edmund (1833). Annual Register. London: Baldwin and Cradock. p. 132.
• Tait, William (1833). Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Original from the University of Michigan: W. Tait.
• Burke, Edmund (1833). A Cry to Ireland and the Empire (against the Repeal of the Union, and in Favor of a Legal Provision for the Poor). Original from the New York Public Library: J. Hatchard & Son.