Carbery East ([ Carbery East (E.D.)]) is a barony in County Cork in Ireland.[ Carbery East (W.D.)]
Legal context
Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions of counties and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they have been administratively obsolete since 1898. However, they continue to be used in land registration and in specification, such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier
Gaels túath which had submitted to the Crown.
History
Originally Carbery East formed a single Barony of Carbery with
Carbery West.
This was essentially a small, semi-independent kingdom, ruled over by the
MacCarthy Reagh dynasty from the 13th through 16th centuries, that broke away from the larger Kingdom of Desmond. Patrick Weston Joyce said the name
Carbery comes from Uí Chairpre Áebda, of which a sept, the O'Donovans under Cathal Ua Donnubáin, migrated to the area c.1300 after being driven from
County Limerick by the Fitzgeralds.
The antiquarian Canon John O'Mahony disagreed, and offered three alternatives: Cairpre founder of Dál Riata; or Cairbre of Uibh Laoghaire; or the Ui Carbre of Corcu Loígde, from whom
Rosscarbery in the barony is named.
However, supporting the first theory is that the O'Donovans, such as Crom Ua Donnabáin, are closely associated with earliest MacCarthys in the area, and soon became their chief vassals, holding approximately right in the middle of the medieval barony.
[Butler, W.F.T., "The Barony of Carbery", in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Volume X, Second Series. 1904. pp. 1–10, 73–84]
Location and settlements
Carbery East is bordered by the baronies of
Carbery West to the west, Bantry to the northwest,
Muskerry West to the north,
Kinalmeaky to the northeast, and Kinsale and
Courceys to the east.
To the south is the
Celtic Sea, broken by the two halves of the barony of Ibane and Barryroe. From east to west are
Courtmacsherry Bay, Barryroe peninsula,
Clonakilty Bay, Ibane peninsula, and the coast from
Rosscarbery to
Glandore.
East Division settlements
Settlements in the division include
Ballinascarty,
[ Carbery East (E.D.): population centres] Ballineen,
[ Carbery East (E.D.): towns] Bandon,
,
,
,
,
,
and Lyre.
Other features include Inchydoney[ Carbery East (E.D.): features]
West Division settlements
Settlements in the division include
Castletown Kinneigh,
[ Carbery East (W.D.): population centres]
Cappeen,
,
,
[ Carbery East (W.D.): towns]
Enniskean,
,
Leap,
and
Rosscarbery
Other features include the River Bandon and the River Ilen.[ Carbery East (W.D.): rivers]
See also
-
List of civil parishes of County Cork
-
List of townlands of the barony of East Carbery (E.D.) in County Cork
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