Dunmanway

Dunmanway is a city in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the place known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is called. Dunmanway has been inhabited on the grounds that prehistoric times, as testified with the resource of a Bronze Age trumpet in the British Museum.

19th century references date the founding of Dunmanway to the overdue seventeenth century, at the same time as the English crown settled a colony there to offer a resting location for troops marching amongst Bandon and Bantry. By 1700, about 30 households lived in the city. Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707, was the metropolis's maximum vital early patron. Cox obtained a furnish from King William III to hold marketplace days and gala's inside the city and strongly recommended the improvement of the neighborhood flax company. To that cease, Cox imported artisans from Ulster to teach the required competencies.