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8 unusual facts about Fermoy


Brisbane Charles Somerville Warren

Brisbane Charles Somerville Warren (1887, Fermoy - 1979) was an Irish entomologist who specialised in Palaearctic Lepidoptera.

Cahirmee Horse Fair

Duggan is supposed to have been a direct descendant of Mogh Ruith and a Duggan, King of Fermoy, was one of Brian Boru's lieutenants to be killed at the battle of Clontarf.

Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin

Ó Súilleabháin was then working for the Nagle family, a wealthy Anglo-Irish, but Catholic and Irish-speaking, family in Fermoy, County Cork.

Fermoy

The town's industries also include electronics manufacturing and assembly by Sanmina-SCI Corporation, formerly Space Craft Incorporated.

Brother Colm O'Connell, Irish missionary and coach of world famous track athletes, is from Caherduggan.

Mug Ruith

The territory Mug Ruith received for his descendants was Fir Maige Féne, later known as Fermoy.

Patrick Rice

Patrick Michael Rice (also Patricio Rice) (September 1945, Fermoy – 8 July 2010, Miami) was an Irish human rights activist and former Catholic priest and religious who became a resident of Argentina.

Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet

During the first quarter of the 19th-century, Abercromby purchased most of the town and lands of Fermoy in Ireland from fellow Scotsman John Anderson.


Baron Fermoy

She was the younger daughter of the fourth Baron Fermoy, a friend of King George VI and the elder of the twin sons of the American heiress Frances Work and her first husband, Hon.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was a great-great-granddaughter of the first Baron Fermoy through her mother, Frances Shand Kydd.

Kilworth

Numerous accounts and maps dating from the 1680s tell of armies and travellers journeying from Fermoy to Clogheen and onwards to Dublin via Kilworth and Kilworth Mountain.

Mitchelstown

On 9 September 1887, three men – John Shinnick of Fermoy, John Casey of Kilbehenny and Michael Lonergan of Galbally, Co.

Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy

Lady Fermoy was born at her father's house, Dalhebity, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire, the daughter of Colonel William Smith Gill and his wife Ruth (née Littlejohn).


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