Ballintemple, County Cork
| Ballintemple Irish: Baile an Teampaill | |
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 Ballintemple village | |
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| Grid reference: | W703716 |
| Location: | 51°53’45"N, 8°25’56"W |
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Ballintemple is a village of County Cork which has become now in effect a suburb of the City of Cork. The village is situated on the east side of the city with its limits extending to the River Lee and the village of Blackrock further to the east. Originally, Ballintemple was a separate village but today it has been enclosed by the city.
The name of the village is from the Irish Baile an Teampaill, meaning 'Town of the church'.[1]
History
Temple Hill, Churchyard Lane, and Ballintemple itself derive their names from an ecclesiastical and burial site at the top of Temple Hill.[2][3] While some historical texts suggest that this graveyard was sited at an early mediæval church of the Knights Templar,[4] this is not supported by other texts,[5] and modern historians assert that this association is no more than a fanciful extrapolation from the name of the village.[6] Whatever the case, while the graveyard remains, no archaeological evidence of an adjoining church has been subject to modern survey.[2] The graveyard itself has been subject to survey,[7] and while it may have been used in the early mediæval period, the earliest recorded burial event was that of the entrails of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton who was killed in the 1690 Siege of Cork and whose intestines were removed and buried here to preserve the body prior to transport back to England.[8] The earliest remaining extant burial markers (with discernable dates) are dated to the early 18th Century.[9]
The antiquary and folklorist Thomas Crofton Croker surveyed the graveyard in the early 19th century. Croker records a folksong relating to the graveyard[10] as well as documenting a marker for an 18th-century burial of a Lieutenant Henry Richard Temple who died with his young wife during a journey from the Caribbean (by way of Ireland) to London.[11] During one such survey in the early 1800s, Croker was chased by locals who mistook his survey for grave robbery.[12] The graveyard is accessible but closed to new burials (save to a few families with existing burial rights).
The ruins of Dundanion Castle lie close to Páirc Uí Chaoimh by the River Lee. William Penn, the founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, is said to have departed from here on his journey to America in 1682.[13] Some time earlier, Sir Walter Raleigh is reported to have spent some time here before setting off on his final voyage to the West Indies in August 1617.[14]
George Boole, the mathematician and inventor of Boolean algebra, lived in Ballintemple during the nineteenth century whilst professor at University College Cork. He died in December 1864, after catching pneumonia as the result of a rain storm whilst walking the four miles between his house and the university to give a lecture.[15]
The old, abandoned Beaumont Quarry lies adjacent to Páirc Uí Rinn and Temple Hill. In its time, it provided limestone blocks for some of the notable buildings of Cork City.[16][17][18] Prior to the expansion of Cork's suburbs in the 20th century, Ballintemple (as with nearby Ballinlough and Flower Lodge) was also home to a number of market gardens and nurseries - such as that of William Baylor Hartland.[19]
Sport
- Gaelic athletics – two stadia which belong to the Gaelic Athletic Association are in or around Ballintemple, used by various Cork GAA teams and clubs for hurling and Gaelic football matches:
- Páirc Uí Rinn
- Páirc Uí Chaoimh
On the eastern side of Páirc Uí Chaoimh is the Atlantic Pond, which was built as part of the scheme to drain the marshy area next to the River Lee and which is now used by walkers and runners.
The showgrounds of the Munster Agricultural Society also adjoin Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
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References
- ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland. Baile an Teampaill Verified 2011-02-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Beaumont Quarry Environmental Impact Study Report - Section 7 - Architectural, Archaeological and Cultural Heritage". Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland). May 2007. http://www.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b280194820.pdf.
- ↑ Folio 6 of the "Grand Jury Map" of 1811 (survey from 1790s) notes the "Church of Ballintemple" to east, and marginally south of the junction between Churchyard lane and Boreenmanna
- ↑ John Windele (1910). Cork: Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork from Its Foundation to the Middle of the 19th Century. Guy and Company. p. 145. https://books.google.com/books?id=ILVYAAAAcAAJ&q=%22historical+and+descriptive+notices+of+the+city+of+Cork%22+windele+ballintemple&pg=PA145.
- ↑ Aubrey Gwynn; Richard Hadcock (1970). Mediæval Religious Houses: Ireland : with and Appendix to Early Sites. Irish Academic Press.
- ↑ Evelyn Bolster (1972). A history of the Diocese of Cork: from the earliest times to the Reformation. Irish University Press. p. 134.
- ↑ "Archaeological Survey of Ireland - Record Details - Record number CO074-065". National Monuments Service. January 2009. http://webgis.archaeology.ie/NationalMonuments/FlexViewer/.
- ↑ Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1894). The life of John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, to the accession of Queen Anne. R. Bentley and Son. p. 201. https://archive.org/stream/lifeofjohnchurch02wols/lifeofjohnchurch02wols_djvu.txt. "His body was embalmed, sent to England in a cask of spirits, and buried at Euston [..] his brain and entrails were buried in the little old graveyard of Ballintemple, near Cork"
- ↑ Ciara Brett (2011). Cork City's Burial Places. Cork City Council (Planning and Development Directorate).
- ↑ Thomas Crofton Croker (1844). Fairy Legends and Traditions Of the South of Ireland. p. 167. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39752/39752-h/39752-h.htm.
- ↑ Thomas Crofton Croker (1823). "Chapter XI - Cork Harbour". Researches in the South of Ireland. p. 213. https://books.google.com/books?id=ooAuAAAAMAAJ&q=richard+temple&pg=PA213.
- ↑ Michael Lenihan (2010). Hidden Cork: Charmers, Chancers and Cute Hoors. Mercier Press. p. 150. ISBN 9781856356862. https://books.google.com/books?id=eJHrU2_6jI4C&q=croker+ballintemple&pg=PA150.
- ↑ Pennsylvania society, Barr Ferree (1911). Report on William Penn memorial in London. The Pennsylvania society. p. 109. https://archive.org/details/reportonwilliamp00pennrich. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ↑ "Dundanion Castle Article by Micheal Lenihan". The Douglas Weekly. 14 October 1999. http://homepage.eircom.net/~douglasweekly/notice21.html.
- ↑ Eoin English (13 March 2013). "Apple could be core of bid to preserve building". Irish Examiner. http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2013/0313/world/apple-could-be-core-of-bid-to-preserve-building-225443.html.
- ↑ "Cork City Council - Places - Berwick Fountain". Corkpastandpresent.ie. 1 July 2006. http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/places/grandparade/berwickfountain/.
- ↑ Tommy Barker (10 January 2013). "Savings to be made". Irish Examiner. http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2013/0110/features/savings-to-be-made-219102.html.
- ↑ "Cork Heritage Open Day 2011 (Pamphlet)". Cork City Council. p. 38. http://www.corkheritageopenday.ie/homepagecontent/rightcolumn/HERITAGE%202011%20COPY%20FOR%20WEB.pdf.
- ↑ Richard Henchion (2005). East to Mahon, The Story of Blackrock, Ballintemple, Ballinlough, Ballinure and Mahon. Dahadore Publications.