Cappoquin
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Cappoquin
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Waterford |
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Cappoquin (Template:Langx, meaning 'tillage-plot of Conn'),[2] also sometimes spelt Cappaquin, is a town in western County Waterford, Ireland. It is on the Blackwater river at the junction of the N72 national secondary road and the R669 regional road. It is positioned on a sharp 90-degree bend in the river and lies at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains. The town is a few miles from Mount Melleray and Lismore, County Waterford.
Name
Cappoquin is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ceapach Choinn, referring to a plot of land (or tillage plot) associated with a person named Conn.[2][3] According to historian Patrick Weston Joyce, "no one can tell who this Conn was".[3] Variant English spellings include Cappaquin or Capaquin and, in some older texts, Caperquin.[4]
History
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1821 | 1,826 | — |
| 1831 | 2,289 | +25.4% |
| 1841 | 2,341 | +2.3% |
| 1851 | 2,144 | −8.4% |
| 1861 | 1,774 | −17.3% |
| 1871 | 1,526 | −14.0% |
| 1881 | 1,555 | +1.9% |
| 1891 | 1,366 | −12.2% |
| 1901 | 1,214 | −11.1% |
| 1911 | 1,069 | −11.9% |
| 1926 | 1,012 | −5.3% |
| 1936 | 1,038 | +2.6% |
| 1946 | 912 | −12.1% |
| 1951 | 826 | −9.4% |
| 1956 | 758 | −8.2% |
| 1961 | 806 | +6.3% |
| 1966 | 785 | −2.6% |
| 1971 | 872 | +11.1% |
| 1981 | 950 | +8.9% |
| 1986 | 920 | −3.2% |
| 1991 | 829 | −9.9% |
| 1996 | 780 | −5.9% |
| 2002 | 756 | −3.1% |
| 2006 | 740 | −2.1% |
| 2011 | 759 | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 699 | −7.9% |
| 2022 | 778 | +11.3% |
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Evidence of Mesolithic settlement in the area was discovered during an archaeological dig, at nearby Lefanta, during the 1980s.[11] Ancient fortifications in the area include ringforts in the neighbouring Lyre East and Fadduaga townlands, and records of a former medieval castle within Cappoquin Demesne.[12][13]
Outside the town is Cappoquin House, which was built in the 1770s on the site of an earlier Fitzgerald castle. It overlooks the town, and has formal gardens and landscaped grounds which are open to the public.[14] The 18th century Dromana House, and its elaborate gate lodge, are also located near Cappoquin.[15] Cappoquin Market House, within the town, was built c.1775 as a three bay market house. It is now used as a shop.[16]
In September 1849, a number of local members of the Young Ireland movement led an unsuccessful attack against the constabulary barracks in Cappoquin.[17]
Economy
Within the town's centre, employers include a number of shops and businesses, including a supermarket, pharmacy, post office and credit union.[citation needed]
Some of the largest individual local employers are located on the Cappoquin industrial estate, located a half mile into adjoining Lefanta.[citation needed]
Being surrounded by fertile fields on all sides, farming and agriculture play a role in the town, providing employment on the farms and orchards in the area.[citation needed] Near Cappoquin is West Waterford Vineyards, an Irish wine producer.[citation needed]
The town has suffered with the decline in the local economy and the loss of both Cappoquin pork and bacon as well as Cappoquin chickens as well as local shops and secondary school.[original research?]
Sport
Affane Cappoquin GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club. Formed in 1969, with the merging of Affane GAA and Cappoquin GAA,[citation needed] the team won its only Waterford Senior Football Championship title in 1974. Affane went on to represent Waterford in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Austin Stacks of Kerry.
Cappoquin Rowing Club is the town's oldest sporting and social organisation, and was founded in 1862 by James M. Moore and John Stanley.[citation needed] They were assisted by Sir John H. Keane who became the first president of the rowing club, and who had previously captained the Trinity Boat at Cambridge and rowed for Cambridge in 1936 when they defeated Oxford.[18] In the 1880s Cappoquin joined with other rowing clubs nationwide to establish the Irish Amateur Rowing Association.[citation needed]
Railway Athletic FC was founded in 1980 and is situated at Danes Field, Cappoquin. Jayson Molumby, who later went on to play with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. and the Republic of Ireland national football team, formerly played for Railway Athletic FC.[19]
Transport
Bus services
Since December 2015 there have been improvements to the frequency of the Local Link (formerly known as Déise Link) bus service.[citation needed] There are now four services a day each way Mondays to Saturdays inclusive to Dungarvan including a commuter service. Connections to Waterford and Rosslare Europort can be made at Dungarvan. In the other direction there are four services to and from Tallow via Lismore. Connections for Fermoy can be made at Tallow.[20] On Saturdays, a local bus company operate a service to Cork. On Sundays, Bus Éireann route 366 provides one service to Dungarvan and Waterford. This route only operates on Sundays and comprises a single journey in one direction (no return service on any day of the week).[21]
Rail
Cappoquin railway station opened on 12 August 1878, but closed on 27 March 1967.[22] It was located on the now dismantled Waterford to Mallow line and served by the Cork to Rosslare boat train.[citation needed]
The construction of the railway bridge below the river bend was to result in tall-masted schooners being no longer able to pass under what was now known as the 'red bridge'. As compensation for this, a new "steamers' quay" was constructed just downriver.[citation needed]
The station is still extant.[23]
Twinning
Cappoquin is twinned with Chanat-la-Mouteyre in France.[citation needed]
Notable people
- Jayson Molumby, professional footballer[19]
- Thomas McCarthy, poet, was born in Cappoquin.[citation needed]
- Kate Baker, teacher and literary guardian of the works of Joseph Furphy, was born in Cappoquin.[24]
See also
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cappoquin: A Window on the Past. Cappoquin Heritage Group. 2007 – via Modern Printers (Kilkenny).
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ceapach Choinn / Cappoquin". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Database. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Joyce, Patrick Weston (1869). "Agriculture and pasturage". Irish Names of Places. Phoenix Publishing Company. p. 229.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Caperquin", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. II (1st ed.), Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1771
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."HISTPOP.ORG - Home". www.histpop.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Northern Ireland Census of Population". Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lee, J. J. (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. hdl:10197/1406.
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Mesolithic artefacts dating back to Mesolithic times were found in the 1980s here by a UCC archaeological party
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Recorded Monuments Protected under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1994 - County Waterford (PDF). archaeology.ie (Report). National Monuments Service. 1995. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cappoquin House". ihh.ie. Irish Historic Houses Association. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
Cappoquin House [..] replaces a medieval castle of the FitzGerald family on the same site
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Building of the Month - June 2010 - Dromana Gate, County Waterford". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
Dromana Gate on the periphery of the Dromana Forest, [is] near Cappoquin, County Waterford
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cappoquin Rowing Club". www.askaboutireland.ie. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cappoquin's Molumby selected for Ireland Senior Squad". avondhupress.ie. Avondhu Press. 26 August 2020. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
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