Qualla: Courtmacsherry https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry 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/v/courtmacsherry-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Courtmacsherry https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry Courtmacsherry: Introduction https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry/ Photo credit John M, CC BY-SA 2.0. Locals just call it Courtmac. The whole village is essentially one long street running along the southern shore of Courtmacsherry Bay, with thick woods rising behind it and continuing eastward all the way to Wood Point - planted by the Earl of Shannon in the late 18th century and never quite cut down. Between the village and the Point, the trees come right to the water, and small natural coves open every few hundred metres. By the numbers it is unassuming: a population in the hundreds, a hotel, a caravan park, a few pubs. By the climate it is unique. Courtmacsherry is the mildest place in Ireland, with a mean annual temperature of 11 degrees Celsius - a maritime sweet spot where palms can be made to grow and the bay only rarely sees frost.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/courtmacsherry-wp/gc1v-courtmacsherry-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Courtmacsherry: Hodnetts Who Became MacSherrys https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry/ Photo credit Flickr member Charlie cravero, CC BY 2.0. The name is older than the village. Around the Norman invasion, the major townships in this corner of West Cork were Timoleague, Lislee, Barryroe and Dunworly. Norman settlers - the de Barrys and the Hodnetts - built fortified houses and castles, and one branch of the Hodnetts di...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/courtmacsherry-wp/gc1v-courtmacsherry-hodnetts-who-became-macsherrys.mp3 0:06 2 full Courtmacsherry: Planted Woods, Planted Earl https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry/ Photo credit Matthew Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1760, Henry Boyle, the First Earl of Shannon, inherited the Boyle estate that included Courtmacsherry. His grandson, the Third Earl, built Courtmacsherry House in the 1840s as the family residence. Before that the village had been a small cluster of houses near Wood Point, sho...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/courtmacsherry-wp/gc1v-courtmacsherry-planted-woods-planted-earl.mp3 0:06 3 full Courtmacsherry: Antarctic Son https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry/ Photo credit Steve Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0. Patrick Keohane was born in Courtmacsherry in 1879. He joined the Royal Navy, and in 1910 he sailed south with Robert Falcon Scott on the Terra Nova Expedition. He was part of the second supporting party on the polar journey, turning back at around 87 degrees south while Scott an...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/v/courtmacsherry-wp/gc1v-courtmacsherry-antarctic-son.mp3 0:06 4 full Courtmacsherry: Bells, Boats, and Bass https://qualla.com/courtmacsherry/ Photo credit John M, CC BY-SA 2.0. The lifeboat is the village's beating heart. Courtmacsherry had one of the first three lifeboats in Ireland in 1825, lost it to neglect by 1840, got a proper station back in 1867, and has been answering the bell ever since - through the wreck of the Faulconnier on the Seven Heads...

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