Cooraclare
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Cooraclare
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Clare |
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Cooraclare (Template:Langx, meaning 'recess of the plain')[1] is a village near Kilrush, in County Clare, Ireland, and a Catholic parish by the same name.
Location
The village of Cooraclare is in the parish of Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Kilrush on the road from Kilrush to Miltown Malbay. The old name for the parish is Kilmacduane, which was joined for a while to the parish of Kilmihil. In 1848 the two were again separated and Cooraclare took its present name. The parish includes the village of Cree, at times spelled Creegh.[2]
The parish has two churches, St Senan's in Cooraclare and St Mary's in Cree.[3]
Cooraclare lies on the River Doonbeg.[4]
Sport and culture
Cooraclare have won the Clare Senior Football Championship in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1944, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1986 and 1997, and also hosts the Rose of Clare Festival every year in August since 1979. The Cooraclare Rose has won the contest in 1987, 1992, 2004, 2015 and 2024
A song associated with Cooraclare is entitled "The Chapel Gate of Cooraclare".
Notable people
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1831 | 140 | — |
| 1841 | 178 | +27.1% |
| 1851 | 167 | −6.2% |
| 1861 | 201 | +20.4% |
| 1871 | 171 | −14.9% |
| 1881 | 163 | −4.7% |
| 1891 | 152 | −6.7% |
| 1901 | 125 | −17.8% |
| 1911 | 111 | −11.2% |
| 1926 | 80 | −27.9% |
| 1936 | 86 | +7.5% |
| 1946 | 98 | +14.0% |
| 1951 | 104 | +6.1% |
| 1956 | 112 | +7.7% |
| 1961 | 94 | −16.1% |
| 1966 | 91 | −3.2% |
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Famous natives or residents include:
- Brendan Daly, politician and government minister
- Seán Kinsella, chef who was born in Cooraclare
- Mick Lillis, Gaelic footballer for Laois and, later, manager[7]
- Tom Morrissey, Gaelic footballer for Clare
- The D'Arcys Brothers, who were active in the War of Independence. In 2023 a monument was erected to their memory by their nephew Brendan Daly in Cooraclare Village which is known as "D'Arcy's Remembered"
- Michael D'Arcy who died age 22 at Poulmore Cooraclare whilst taking part in an ambush of the Cooraclare RIC.[8]
- Patrick D'Arcy who was an active Volunteer and later executed aged 25 in nearby Doonbeg.[9]
- Jack D'Arcy who was sentenced to death but evaded British custody en route to Limerick Gaol. During the Civil War Jack D'Arcy was captured again and awaiting a death sentence at Limerick Prison, however he along with 30 of his IRA comrades escaped Limerick Prison via digging an escape tunnel in the launderette section of Limerick prison. This tunnel took a week to dig and finally when complete they realised they had just tunneled their way into the nearby St. John of God's Mental Hospital. Nonetheless they escaped the grounds of the hospital with relative ease.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cuar an Chláir/Cooraclare". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cooraclare (Kilmacduane)". Diocese of Killaloe. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cooraclare (Kilmacduane) Churches". Diocese of Killaloe. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Doonbeg River". Clare.ie. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Central Statistics Office : Census 2011". Cso.ie. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website". Histpop.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cooraclare man Lillis steps down as Laois boss". Clare Herald.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Michael D'Arcy" (PDF). Military Archives. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Statement by witness" (PDF). Military Archives. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
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