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unusual facts about Ovens, County Cork



2005 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final

The 2005 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final (sponsored by Guinness) was a hurling match played on Sunday 26 June 2005 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork, County Cork,.

Alasdair Mac Colla

Mac Colla's men were mostly killed in the Confederate defeats at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath and then at the Battle of Knocknanauss in County Cork.

Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin

Duggan-Cronin was born on 17 May 1874 in Innishannon, County Cork, Ireland, and died on 25 August 1954 in Kimberley, South Africa.

Anglin Bay

The original company was begun by brothers W. B. and S. Anglin, whose father, Robert Anglin (1806-1874), had emigrated from County Cork, Ireland to Kingston in 1829, leaving Ireland with his wife on his wedding day.

Anne Marie Forrest

Anne Marie Forrest is an author who grew up Blarney, County Cork, Ireland.

Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly

Baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly in County Cork, also referred to as Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly, in the County of Cork, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Bartholomew MacCarthy

Bartholomew MacCarthy (b. Conna, Ballynoe, County Cork, 12 Dec., 1843; d. Inniscarra, Co. Cork, 6 Mar., 1904) was a scholar and chronologist who wrote extensively on Early Irish literature.

Bedourie oven

Drovers working on Bedourie Station, in western Queensland, found that the heavy cast iron camp ovens they used for cooking would often break as a result of falling from their pack horses.

Channel South

Channel South is a cable television channel operating in Cork, Limerick, and parts of County Kerry, County Waterford, County Clare and South Tipperary since November 2008, Republic of Ireland.

Chenopodium album

Archaeologists analysing carbonized plant remains found in storage pits and ovens at Iron Age, Viking Age, and Roman sites in Europe have found its seeds mixed with conventional grains and even inside the stomachs of Danish bog bodies.

Cherrycool Promotions

The festival is one of the "Little Two" music festivals in Ireland, the other being Indiependence which is usually held on the same weekend in Mitchelstown, County Cork.

Children Under a Palm

After colonial service in Jamaica and Hong Kong, the Blakes retired to Myrtle Grove in County Cork, Ireland.

Cork Mid

Cork Mid (or Mid Cork) may refer to one of two parliamentary constituencies in County Cork, in the South of Ireland

Crimson Tonight

"Crimson Tonight" was a live recording of four tracks culled from Second Coming, played during a concert at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, County Cork as part of Ireland's Féile Festival in August 1995.

Crooke baronets

Sir Thomas was granted substantial lands in County Cork; he founded the town of Baltimore (which was largely destroyed in the Sack of Baltimore in 1631) and also gave his name to the village of Crookhaven.

Divine Rapture

The small Irish town of Ballycotton in County Cork where filming took place on it in the summer of 1995 expected to generate significant revenue during filming.

Eggesford

Lady Mary Chichester married in 1655 as his first wife John St Ledger (d.1696) of Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland.

Enoch Turner School

Because many of the area's immigrant families were from County Cork in Ireland, the neighbourhood became known as Corktown – a nickname it still carries today.

Essex Regiment

In March 1921 at Crossbarry in County Cork, the Essex regiment encircled the IRAs "West Cork Flying Column" with 1,200 troops and soon managed to expose a company sized element of the IRA.

George Duggan

He was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1812 and moved to Upper Canada with his parents.

Industrial design

Raymond Loewy was a prolific American designer who is responsible for the Royal Dutch Shell corporate logo, the original BP logo (in use until 2000), the PRR S1 steam locomotive, the Studebaker Starlight (including the later iconic bulletnose), as well as Schick electric razors, Electrolux refrigerators, short-wave radios, Le Creuset French ovens, and a complete line of modern furniture, among many other items.

Jill Ovens

Ovens was an Alliance candidate in Auckland's Mount Albert electorate in the 1999 elections and the 2002 elections, both times contesting the seat against Labour leader Helen Clark.

John Hazlitt

After living in Maidstone in Kent, and in Bandon in County Cork, the family moved to America in 1783, living first in Philadelphia and then in Boston.

John Kane

Next he worked a stint in the steel industry at the National Tube Company in McKeesport, but soon left for a job in Connellsville, Pennsylvania at the coke ovens of Henry Clay Frick.

John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket

John Span Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket of Newtown, County Cork (10 July 1793 - 16 April 1871) was an Irish peer and Queen's Counsel.

Keith Hanley

Keith Hanley (born August 15, 1993) is an Irish singer from Charleville, County Cork and the winner of The Voice of Ireland series 2 on April 28, 2013.

Lee Carsley

Carsley qualifies for the Republic of Ireland national team through his grandmother, who is from Dunmanway, County Cork.

Lewis Glucksman

He established a home in Cobh, County Cork in 1984 with his wife Loretta Brennan Glucksman and lived there from 1999.

Monty's Pass

Monty's Pass finished fourth in the defence of his title in 2004 and completed the course again in 2005 before being retired to his trainer's yard at Conna in County Cork.

Nicholas J. Clayton

Nicholas Joseph Clayton (November 1, 1840 in Cloyne, County Cork - December 9, 1916) was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas.

North Tipperary

The centre is known as 'the Golden Vale', a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties Limerick and Cork.

Ó hAodha

Now generally anglicised as O'Hea (in County Cork), Hughes or Hayes, Ó hAodha derives from Aodh, a personal name (meaning "fire") popular at all historical times throughout the Gaelic world.

Óttar of Dublin

He is claimed as an ancestor by the Cotter family of County Cork, Ireland, whose original name was Mac Oitir (son of Óttar), 'through Óttar's son Thorfin and grandson Therulfe.

Ovens

Ovens Auditorium, an auditorium located in Charlotte, North Carolina where concerts and other entertainment events are held

Philip Perceval

Holding, in this connection, the offices of general feodary of Ireland, escheator of Munster, and (1637) commissioner of survey into land titles in County Tipperary and County Cork, he took a prominent share in the discovery of technical defects in Irish titles; and obtained enormous transfers of forfeited lands to himself.

Pulemelei Mound

Archaeological surveys by Gregory Jackmond in 1977-1978 recorded 3000 features including stone platforms, stone fences, pathways and earth ovens.

Queen Elizabeth II Quay

2.) the Quay is a very small feature of the river estuary on which it was built— it is this estuary which has carved out what is the largest natural harbor on the African continent but still puts this harbor behind Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia, and several natural harbors claiming the title for world's second largest, including Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Poole Harbour in Dorset, southern England, and Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland.

Rachel Allen

Allen lives at a seaside home in County Cork with her husband Isaac, the son of television chef Darina Allen, and their three children.

Redstone Inn

A large part of the venture was the construction of a planned company town at Redstone, where the coke ovens were.

Richard B. Connolly

Richard Barrett Connolly (1810 Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland – May 30, 1880 Marseille, France) was an American politician from New York.

River Suir

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) author of the The Fairie Queene, in his writings during the Elizabethan age while domiciled in County Cork, referred to the 'gentle Shure', probable a most accurate spelling and the most phonetically correct of the period.

Shlomo Miller

Rabbi Miller was one of the signatories to the ruling forbidding changing the temperature of Shabbos Mode ovens on Yom Tov, alleging that Rabbi Moshe Heinemann was the sole Haredi authority to permit it.

Spare ribs

In County Cork, Ireland, pork or beef spare ribs are boiled and eaten with potatoes and turnips.

Timothy O'Keeffe

Timothy O'Keeffe (September 27, 1926, Scilly, Kinsale, County Cork - January 11, 1994, Scilly, Kinsale) was an Irish-born editor and publisher.

Tynte baronets

During his lifetime, Tynte also acquired lands in the Barony of Imokilly, including the tower house at Ballycrenane, near Ladysbridge, County Cork.

West Cork League, Premier Division

The West Cork League is an Irish amateur league for association football clubs in the Irish province of Munster, drawing clubs from County Cork.

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

Brouncker was born in Castlelyons, County Cork, the elder son of William Brouncker, 1st Viscount Brouncker and Winifred, daughter of Sir William Leigh of Newnham.

Zanussi

The 26-year-old son of a blacksmith in Pordenone in Northeastern Italy began the business by making home stoves and wood-burning ovens.


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