Crookstown, County Cork
| Crookstown Irish: An Baile Gallda | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
_(geograph_3716394).jpg) Clodah Castle, south Crookstown | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | W428659 |
| Location: | 51°50’33"N, 8°49’53"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 245 (2016) |
| Postcode: | P14 |
| Dialling code: | 021 |
| Local Government | |
| Dáil constituency: |
Cork North-West |
Crookstown is a small village in County Cork, about seven and a half miles east of the town of Macroom and about half a mile off the N22 Cork-Killarney road. It had a population of 245 as of the 2016 census.
The Irish name, An Baile Gallda, means 'The town of the invader or foreigner'.[1]
History
To the south of Crookstown village is the ruin of the 16th century Clodagh Castle, once home to one of the branches of the McSweeney clan.[2] Another ruined castle, Castlemore Castle or Dundrinan Castle, stands to the north of the village.[2][3]
Crookstown Road railway station, located close to Castlemore Castle approximately a mile from the village centre, operated as a stop on the Cork and Macroom Direct Railway from 1866 until services on the line ceased in the 1940s.[4]
Crookstown House, an estate house owned by the Warren family was burnt-out by the IRA in June 1921, during the Irish uprising. It was later rebuilt.[5]
A large mill, built c.1810 at Bellmount close to the village, was once economically important to the area.[6][7] The area is now better known for its brick and concrete factory at Castlemore.
References
- ↑ "An Baile Gallda / Crookstown". Placenames Database of Ireland. https://www.logainm.ie/129496.aspx.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cork County Council - Heritage Castles of County Cork (2017) page 156
- ↑ Castlemore Castle: castles.nl
- ↑ "Crookstown Road station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf.
- ↑ "Warren (Crookstown)". Landed Estates Database. National University of Ireland Galway. http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3158.
- ↑ "Bellmount Mills, Bellmount Lower, County Cork". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20908333/bellmount-mills-bellmount-lower-county-cork. "Bellmount Mill is a reminder of the former economic prosperity of Crookstown, and once played a significant role in the local community"
- ↑ "Heritage Week 2017". Kilmurry Museum. 2017. http://kilmurrymuseum.ie/Articles/kilmurry-hidden-gems-tour-notes-heritage-week-2017/. "Howard’s Flour Mill/Bellmount Mills [..] was built in 1810 and was operational until 2001"