placenamesCarrick
An Charraig
Carrick-on-Bannow’s village trades, school, entertainment hall and musical festival reveal a history distinct from the medieval town beside Bannow Bay.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Charraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carrick · English · main form
- Bannow · English · main form · local name
- Carrick-on-Bannow · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A village of trades and services
Carrick-on-Bannow, also locally called Carrig, served its surrounding countryside through shops, trades and public services. Brendan Hayes’s account of 1885–1954 describes a village with roughly thirty houses, a police barracks, post office, forge, shoemakers and tailors. Two public pumps supplied water. His research combines family records and personal recollection, documenting a working village beyond the better-known story of medieval Bannow by the bay. [2]
The school and its misleading date plaque
Hayes dates Danescastle National School to 1892, replacing an older school beside it. He explains that the 1958 date on its front plaque records enlargement rather than original construction. In the predecessor building, boys were taught upstairs and girls downstairs. That older school was demolished in the early 1930s, and its site was absorbed into the church graveyard. [2]
A hall for cinema and drama
The village hall was built in the 1930s through local initiative, with Dan Curran among those involved. According to Hayes, a voluntary committee managed it, and it accommodated stage plays and whist drives as well as a cinema that operated into the early 1960s. The same building therefore supported several forms of shared entertainment. [2]
The Phil Murphy musical gathering
The Phil Murphy Memorial Weekend made Carrig a gathering place for traditional musicians. Its 2016 programme marked twenty-five years of the event, combining concerts, workshops and sessions. The festival honours harmonica player Phil Murphy of nearby Ballygow, who performed with mumming groups and passed tunes to younger musicians. The organisers recall his sons John and Pip recording The Trip to Cullenstown with him shortly before his death in 1989. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Know Your Place: From Duffs Turn to the Cross of Carrig, 1885–1954 · Wm. Brendan Hayes, Bannow Historical Society
- The Alluring Aroma of Tunes: Phil Murphy Weekend 2016 · Phil Murphy Weekend, published in FolkWorld
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.