Crookstown, County Cork

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Crookstown
Irish: An Baile Gallda
County Cork

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

  1. "An Baile Gallda / Crookstown". Placenames Database of Ireland. https://www.logainm.ie/129496.aspx. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cork County Council - Heritage Castles of County Cork (2017) page 156
  3. Castlemore Castle: castles.nl
  4. "Crookstown Road station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. 
  5. "Warren (Crookstown)". Landed Estates Database. National University of Ireland Galway. http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=3158. 
  6. "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" 
  7. "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"