{{short description|Former Irish district}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=September 2020}} '''Coolcarney''' ({{Irish place name|Cuil Cearnadha}}<ref name="Firbis 1844">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgMGAAAAQAAJ&q=Calruidhe+Cuile+Cearnadha&pg=PA246|title=Geineaich ua Ch-Fiachrach|last=Firbis|first=Duald Mac|date=1844|publisher=Irish archæological society|language=en}}</ref>), also called Callraighe of Cuill,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68g_AAAAcAAJ&q=callraighe+of+cuill&pg=PA246|title=The Irish Archaeological Society|last=Society|first=Irish Archaeological|date=1844|language=en}}</ref> was an Irish district located in Connacht, within the Barony of Gallen stretching across both County Mayo, and County Sligo.<ref>{{cite book | publisher=The Irish Archaeological Society | title=A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywIGAAAAQAAJ&q=o%27rothlain&pg=PA145 | first=Roderic | last=O'Flaherty | year=1846 | access-date=29 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E61jAAAAcAAJ&q=coolcarney&pg=PA483|title=The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, Commonly Called O'Dowda's Country; Now First Published from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from the Genealogical Manuscript of Duald Mac Firbis, in the Library of Lord Roden with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of Hy-fiachrach|date=1844|publisher=Irish Aechaeological Society|language=en}}</ref> It was unique in that it was a separate principality of the Uí Fiachrach from the rest of the Barony of Gallen.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68g_AAAAcAAJ&q=coolcarney&pg=PA246|title=The Irish Archaeological Society|last=Society|first=Irish Archaeological|date=1844|language=en}}</ref> {{Location map|Ireland|width=250|float=right|label=Coolcarney|mark=Green_pog.svg|lat_deg=|lon_deg=|lat=54.083825|long=-9.090532}} <mapframe width="300" height="300" zoom="10" latitude="54.02" longitude="-8.95" text="Approximate extent of Coolcarney (Cúil Cearnadha)"> { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "title": "Coolcarney (approximate extent)", "description": "Approximate historical territory between Foxford, Attymass, and Castleconnor.", "stroke": "#cc0000", "stroke-width": 2, "stroke-opacity": 1, "fill": "#ff9900", "fill-opacity": 0.3 }, "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[ [-9.1200, 53.9805], [-9.0500, 54.0200], [-8.9500, 54.0500], [-8.8500, 54.0800], [-8.7800, 54.0700], [-8.7500, 54.0200], [-8.8000, 53.9700], [-8.8800, 53.9400], [-9.0000, 53.9500], [-9.0800, 53.9600], [-9.1200, 53.9805] ]] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "title": "Foxford", "marker-color": "#0050d0", "marker-size": "medium" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-9.1156, 53.9807] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "title": "Attymass", "marker-color": "#0050d0", "marker-size": "medium" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-8.9310, 54.0120] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "title": "Castleconnor", "marker-color": "#0050d0", "marker-size": "medium" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-8.7600, 54.0400] } } ] } </mapframe>
== Overview == Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh states in a poem written in 1417 that, Coolcarney "embraced the territory between Beel Lasa (or Foxford) and the Brosnach river in Castleconnor."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.attymass.ie/historical_documents/eccles_hist.pdf|title=The Ecclesiastical History of the Parish of Attymass|website=Attymass Historical Document Archive}}</ref> Historically there were four hereditary tribes of the area: O'Fionain, O'Rothlain, O'Tuathalain, and O'Cuinn, with the O'Rothlain being its chieftain.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreeso02ohagoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreeso02ohagoog/page/n599 571]|quote=O'Fionain.|title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation|last=O'Hart|first=John|date=1892|publisher=J. Duffy and Company|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QM9XAAAAIAAJ&q=Cuil+Cearnadha&pg=PA424|title=O'Dowda's Country|last=O'Donovan|first=John|date=1844|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Ireland|pages=423|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/miscellanyofcelt00celt|page=[https://archive.org/details/miscellanyofcelt00celt/page/31 31]|quote=o'rothlain.|title=Miscellany of the Celtic Society. The Genealogy of Corca Laidhe; Poem on the Battle of Dun; by Gilla-Brighde Mac Conmidhe; Docwra's Tracts; Several Poems, Pedigrees, and Extracts. (celtice Et Angl.)|last=O'Donovan|first=John|date=1849|publisher=Celtic Society|language=en}}</ref> Over time the region was reduced to an area within the modern parishes of Attymass and Kilgarvan.<ref name="Firbis 1844"/><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/en/towns-villages/attymass/attymass-history-famine.html|title=History of Attymass Co. Mayo, in the West of Ireland {{!}} mayo-ireland.ie|website=www.mayo-ireland.ie|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref> Further description is given by John O'Donovan:
''“Cuil-Cearnadha is called Calraidhe Cuile from its being in the corner or angle of Fith-Gathlaidh; and, if the learned say truly, it is to it the appellation of Calraidhe Innse-Nisc should be given.”''<ref name=":1" />
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== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Connacht Category:County Mayo Category:County Sligo