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Dunmanway
West Cork
Ireland
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This small, pretty town received its first charter in 1292 but was refounded in the early 17th century by the first earl of Cork. He settled it with 100 English families and planned a Protestant town form which Catholics would be excluded. His plan failed.
Clonakilty is now very Irish and very Catholic - witness the Presbyterian chapel that has been turned into a post office. From the mid-18th century until the mid 19-th century, over 10,000 people worked in the town's linen industry. The bakery by the public waterpump was once a linen hall, and the fire station stands on the site of the old linen market. What was once a corn mill driven by the nearby river has been pleasingly converted into a library.
Michael Collins, the famous Irish leader, went to school in Clonakilty, a fact of which the community is very proud. Clonakilty has a very lively pub scene. More information
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