![]() ![]() The Condons wanted their land in Cork while the Fitzgeralds of Mocollop, The Shane, Lisfinny and Strancally wanted their land in Waterford. In the 1560s when the border between Counties Cork and Waterford was been formalised, the border followed the then property ownership desires. In 1573 Peter McRichard McShane Condon and John McRichard Condon were living at Garrynagoul. Many of these places were former Barry lands with Kilbarry meaning Barry’s wood and were connected with the manors of Mocollop and Knockmourne but how or when these lands came to belong to the Condon family is unknown. By the early sixteenth century the Condons held Clondulane, Careysville, Kilbarry, Ballydorgan, Waterpark, Garrynagoul, Marshtown, Modeligo and Kilcoran. Meanwhile the Condon family of Kilworth and Ballyderown had expanded their territory along the south bank of the River Blackwater. This Conna is possibly Conna south of the Bride or it could be Knockmourne manor that was technically still Barry property even if occupied by the Fitzgeralds for over a hundred years. In 1460 William Barry gave Conna, Ballytrasna, Cooladurragh and Mocollop to Thomas Fitzgerald, son of the Earl of Desmond, on his marriage with Barry’s daughter. By 1356 Maurice Fitzgerald, 1 st Earl of Desmond, had acquired control of Knockmourne manor and the nearby manor of Ballynoe. In 1318 Odo de la Freyne still held Knockmourne. In 1295 Thomas FitzPhilip Hodgnet was tenant in Knockmourne of 140 acres from Odo de la Freyne. They had inherited the manor from Odo de Barry. The manor of Knockmourne which possibly was coterminous with the parish of Knockmourne, and where Kilcoran is located, was owned by the de la Fryne family in the thirteenth century. It is difficult to know the history of Kilcoran in medieval times (1200-1600) as so few records exist and it is unclear to which manor the townland of Kilcoran belonged to. The Deise Kingdom had possibly lost political control before 1130 of that area of County Cork between the Blackwater and the Bride to a mixture of the Uí Meic Caille kingdom south of the Bride and the Eóganacht Glendamnach kingdom north of the Blackwater. When the McCarthy kings of South Munster (Desmond) created the Diocese of Cloyne in 1123-1138 (possibly 1130) the diocese of Lismore was pushed back eastwards to the present diocesan border. It is more likely that the area in and around Kilcoran was once part of the Déise Kingdom of Waterford and was until the early twelfth century part of the Diocese of Lismore which extended as far as Cork Harbour. But other scholars have questioned this and say that Clondulane and Carrigatoortane are the only identifiable places in Leathbaile Hi Conchubair. Canon Patrick Power said this region extended eastwards along to south bank of the Blackwater to the present Cork/Waterford border. The topographical poem, Crichad an Chaoilli, refers to a region within the Kingdom of Fermoy as the Leathbaile Hi Conchubair. ![]() This was reputed to be an ancient church site, later called a cillín, which was called Ceall Garbain. Near the centre of a field called Pairc-a-gheata on the farm in Kilcoran South formerly owned by Paddy and Nelly Flynn (early twenty-first century by Liam Leamy), was until recently seen the faint outline of an arc circular fence. A holy well in Kilcoran South, called Poll Dubh, was located beside a big fir tree on Foote’s farm (late twentieth century Bryan’s farm) but little else is known about the well. It is also possible that the area was called Coill Charáin or Cuarán’s wood as Kilcoran was well known in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for its extensive woodland. The parish name of Knockmourne, Cnoc mo-Chuarán, means Cuarán’s Hill. Cuarán is also known as mo-Chuarán and was a saint of the 7 th century. The name Kilcoran is translated as Cil Chuaráin or Cuarán’s church. The road divides the townland into two divisions, Kilcoran North (83acres) and Kilcoran South (474acres). It lies in the civil parish of Knockmourne and in the Catholic parish of Conna. The townland of Kilcoran is situated on both sides of the ridge road that divides the watershed of the Rivers Blackwater and Bride. Kilcoran townland in Knockmourne parish, County Cork ![]()
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