Qualla: Canovee https://qualla.com/canovee en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Canovee https://qualla.com/canovee Canovee: Introduction https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. The locals call Canovee an island, though no sea touches it. The River Lee curls around its northern shore. The Kame River runs along the east. The Aghthying Stream marks the west. What sits between them is roughly twenty-one square kilometres of rolling pasture, sixteen townlands, and a quiet rural region halfway between Macroom and Cork city that has been a discrete unit of land for at least a thousand years. The Irish call it Cannaway. The English maps started writing Canovee in the seventeenth century. Either name will get you there. Both refer to the same patch of mid-Cork that has been an island in the imagination of its people since long before anybody drew it on a map.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/gc1x-canovee-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Canovee: What the Surveyors Found https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1656, four years after Oliver Cromwell finished his campaign in Ireland, the Civil Survey arrived to record what was left. The surveyors measured Canavoy Parish at ten and a half plowlands, bounded east by Aglish, south by Moviddy, west by Kilmurry, and northwest and north by ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/gc1x-canovee-what-the-surveyors-found.mp3 0:06 2 full Canovee: The Longs of the Island https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. John Long of Mount Long held most of Canovee in the 1650s. He was, in the language of the survey, an Irish Papist and deceased, his lands now subject to confiscation. He owned Lehenagh, valued at twenty-four pounds. He owned Cooldrum, Coolnacarriga, Classis and Coolnasoon togethe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/gc1x-canovee-the-longs-of-the-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Canovee: A Pleasant Seat on the Lee https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. By 1788, when the Compleat Irish Traveller passed through, Canovee had softened into something gentler. At Mahallagh, five miles east of Macroom, was a pleasant seat on the south bank of the Lee. In the parish of Canaboy was another, graced with a handsome house, good gardens, la...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/gc1x-canovee-a-pleasant-seat-on-the-lee.mp3 0:06 4 full Canovee: Carrigadrohid on the Rock https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the northern boundary, just where the Lee bends, the village of Carrigadrohid carries a castle described in the 1656 survey as situated on a rock in the midst of the River Lee, valued at one hundred pounds. The bridge across the river was timber and out of repair, but passable...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/canovee-wp/gc1x-canovee-carrigadrohid-on-the-rock.mp3 0:06 5 full Canovee: An Island That Stayed https://qualla.com/canovee/ Photo credit Íochtar, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 2011 census counted 595 people living on the island of Canovee, 293 men and 302 women, in an area of 21.6 square kilometres. The population had risen 13.8 percent since 2006. Most still farm. The civil parish remains the administrative unit, with sixteen townlands whose Irish...

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