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Carhoo Upper

Coordinates: 51°54′57″N 8°48′55″W / 51.91583°N 8.81528°W / 51.91583; -8.81528
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Carhoo Upper
Irish transcription(s)
 • Derivation:An Cheathrú Uachtarach
Carhoo Upper is located in Ireland
Carhoo Upper
Carhoo Upper
Carhoo Upper shown within Ireland
Coordinates: 51°54′57″N 8°48′55″W / 51.91583°N 8.81528°W / 51.91583; -8.81528
Irish grid refW439740
CountryIreland
CountyCounty Cork
BaronyMuskerry East
Civil parishMagourney
First recordedc. 1590
SettlementsCoachford
Government
 • CouncilCork County Council
 • WardBlarney-Macroom EA
Area
 • Total
80.57 ha (199.08 acres)

Carhoo Upper (from Irish An Cheathrú Uachtarach) is a townland within the civil parish of Magourney and catholic parish of Aghabullogue, County Cork, Ireland. It is 199.08 acres (80.56 ha) in size, and west of Coachford village.

Carhoo firstly appears c. 1590 as 'Carown' in a sketch map The description of Muskery, retained as part of the Dartmouth Map Collection, at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.[1] In the Down Survey Maps (1656-8), it is referred to as 'Carrow' [2] and 'Carrooe', and the accompanying terrier lists Thomas and Edmund Coppinger as proprietors by way of mortgage.[3] The Ordnance Survey name book (c. 1840) describes Carhoo Upper as bounded on the north by Rockgrove townland and on the west by Aghinagh parish. Townland name versions include 'Carhoo' and 'Carhue'. O'Murchú (1991) holds Ceathrú as meaning a quarter, in this instance a measurement of land, such as a townland or ploughland, and being a smaller division than a tuath or triocha céad.[4] The Placenames Database of Ireland gives the townland an Irish name of An Cheathrú Uachtarach, with Ceathrú meaning a quarterland.[5]

Townland sites/items of interest

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References

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  1. ^ "The description of Muskery, Dartmouth map collection, Royal Museums Greenwich". Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Down Survey map 1656-8 (Barony of Muskery)". Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Down Survey map 1656-8 (Ahabollog and Aghinagh)". Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  4. ^ O'Murchú, M. (December 1991). "Place names of the parish of Aghabullogue". Coachford Record. 2.
  5. ^ "Placenames Database of Ireland". Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d e Histpop; Area, population and number of houses, Vol. II, Ireland, 1881, page 207
  7. ^ "1841 Census appears to include the population of adjoining Rockgrove townland within Carhoo Upper".
  8. ^ a b c HistPop; Area, houses, and population, Munster, Ireland,1911 Page 94
  9. ^ "Grand Jury map of County Cork" (PDF). Retrieved 24 February 2014.
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