Shanballymore

Shanballymore (Irish At Seanbhaile Mór, " the grand old city " ) is a village in the north of County Cork, Republic of Ireland, with 553 inhabitants ( according to the 2006 census ). Shanballymore is on the main road from Mallow Mitchelstown after. The nearby towns are Doneraile, Kildorrery and Castletownroche.

History and national heritage

In the vicinity of Shanballymore there are many prehistoric archaeological monuments, including a stone box in Shanballymore Upper, in 1977, the remains of four people were discovered from the Bronze Age, and several Bronze Age hearths in Carrigleagh and Dannanstown.

From the 6th to 10th century AD, the ring forts in Poulleagh, Shanballymore Upper, Clogher and Carrigaunroe come.

In Ballinamona, on the north bank of the River Awbeg, is a Tower House, which was built in the late 16th century or early 17th century as a residence reinforced. From a former Templar church from the Middle Ages, the south wall is still preserved. This wall is surrounded by a cemetery whose emergence time also dates back to the Middle Ages. In the cemetery there are numerous grave stones from the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the south of the village stands on the banks of the River Awbeg the ruins of Dannanstown mill, a group of the agricultural tradition of the area. In 1929, a dairy cooperative in Shanballymore had its seat, which was a part of the burgeoning in the late 19th century cooperative movement. It was closed in 2003.

Personalities

The political philosopher and politician Edmund Burke (1729-1797), was supposedly born here. Although Burke himself admitted at Trinity College Dublin as a place of birth, the politician and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien attacked in a biography on the traditional Blackwater Valley view that Edmund Burke to be in the house of his mother's brother, James Nagle, was born.

The poet Edmund Spenser (1529-1599), who lived nearby on Kilcolman Castle in Doneraile, claimed farmland in Shanballymore, but lost in 1594 the process to the land against the landowner Maurice Roche, 6th Viscount Fermoy