Kilworth
| Kilworth Irish: Cill Uird | |
| County Cork | |
|---|---|
 Kilworth village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | R833027 |
| Location: | 52°10’35"N, 8°14’39"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,055 (2016) |
| Local Government | |
| Dáil constituency: |
Cork East |
Kilworth is a village in north County Cork, about a mile north of Fermoy near the river Funcheon. The M8 Cork–Dublin motorway passes nearby. Kilworth has an army camp, on the R639 regional road between Mitchelstown and Fermoy.
History
The name Kilworth comes from the Irish language term "Cill Úird", literally meaning "church of the order". In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Kilworth was a notable settlement on the old Dublin to Cork road, before the construction of the new road from Fermoy to Cashel and from Cashel to Urlingford between 1739 and the mid-nineteenth century. Numerous accounts and maps dating from the 1680s tell of armies and travellers journeying from Fermoy to Clogheen and onwards to Dublin by way of Kilworth and Kilworth Mountain.[1]
Amenities and attractions
Kilworth Arts centre is a theatre venue in the centre of the village. It was previously used as a church.
Kilworth (Glenseskin) forest is located about half a mile from the village centre.
Economy
Teagasc has an agricultural research facility based at Moorepark, just outside Kilworth. The village is within commuting distance of many centres of employment, including Cork city.
References
- ↑ See, for example, David Broderick, The First Toll Roads: Ireland's Turnpike Roads, 1729–1858 (Cork, 2002); J. H. Andrews, Shapes of Ireland: Maps and Their Makers, 1564–1839 (Dublin, 1997); Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland (Dublin, 1778); and Herman Moll's New Map of Ireland (1714).
