Curraghbinny

For other uses, see Currabinny.

Curraghbinny Wood
The Terrace, Curraghbinny

Curraghbinny (Irish: Corra Binne),[1] also sometimes spelled Currabinny or Currabinney,[2] is a townland in County Cork, Ireland.[3] Located on Cork Harbour near Ringaskiddy and with an area of 2.4 square kilometres (240 ha), it is a townland in the barony of Kerrycurrihy.[3] As of the 2011 census, Curraghbinny townland had a population of 155 people.[4]

Lough Beg Bird Reserve and Curraghbinny Wood are located in the area.[2][5] Curraghbinny Wood, a forested amenity of approximately 35 hectares (86 acres), contains the remains of a Bronze Age cairn which is known locally as the "giant's grave".[6][7][8] The cairn, which was subject to excavation in the 1930s (during which cremated human remains and a bronze ring were found), was restored in the 1990s.[8][9] There is a plaque to the Irish-Canadian politician, William Warren Baldwin, within the wood.[10][11]

There is a large pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, which was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m in 2019, in Curraghbinny townland.[12]

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  1. ^ "Corra Binne / Curraghbinny". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "A bird reserve next to a pharmaceutical facility". thecork.ie. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Curraghbinny Townland, Co. Cork". townlands.ie. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  4. ^ "CD153 - Cork Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate by Townlands, CensusYear and Statistic". data.gov.ie. Central Statistics Office. 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2021. Curraghbinny, Carrigaline, Co. Cork [..] 155
  5. ^ "Lough Beg Bird Reserve". lbbrcork.ie. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Curraghbinny Woods". ringofcork.ie. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Cork-Curraghbinny" (PDF) (Map). coillte.ie. Coillte. 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  8. ^ a b Ó Ríordáin, Seán P. (1933). "Excavation of cairn in townland of Curraghbinny, Co. Cork" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. XXXVIII: 80–84.
  9. ^ Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork. Dublin: Government Stationery Office. On top of a hill in Curraghbinny wood at E tip of E-W ridge, overlooking Cork Harbour [..] Excavated in 1932 by O Ríordáin (1933, 80-4) who found a cairn of stone enclosed by rough dry-stone wall [..and..] fragmentary cremated human bone and charcoal between stones of circle [..] The monument was taken into State Care in 1984 and the cairn was reinstated in July 1998
  10. ^ "William Warren Baldwin 1775-1844". heritagetrust.on.ca. Ontario Heritage Trust. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Plaques outside Ontario - William Warren Baldwin 1775-1844". ontarioplaques.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014.
  12. ^ "Thermo Fisher Scientific to hire for 36 'high-level' jobs in Cork". siliconrepublic.com. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2021. Late last year, the Currabinny site was acquired by Thermo Fisher from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m

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