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Recorded forms
Carraig Uí Leighin· Irish · main form · validated name
Carrigaline· English · main form
Place & story
People & connections
Roberts and Keeling
Carrigaline Pottery began in 1928 through the initiative of Hodder Walworth Blacker Roberts of Mount Rivers. Louis T. Keeling of Stoke-on-Trent became its initial art director, according to the National Museum. Their enterprise grew from an attempt to turn clay used locally for bricks into pottery.[2][3]
From flowerpots to souvenirs
Flowerpots were among the early products, followed by tableware and commemorative pieces, including ware for the Eucharistic Congress of 1932. New machinery and kilns supported expansion. Carrigaline objects in the National Museum preserve mottled glazes and ornamental animal and bird figures.[2][3]
Clay coming upriver
Some products required imported clay. A local commemorative account records the schooner Two Sisters bringing clay from North Devon in August 1936. The delivery linked the pottery with Carrigaline’s pier and overseas supply routes.[3]
Several endings and restarts
The original pottery closed in 1979. Later businesses and a workers’ co-operative continued manufacture on the site under different arrangements, before final closure in 2003. The successive enterprises preserve a history of workers’ efforts to sustain the town’s manufacturing industry.[3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Carrigaline — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Carrigaline, Cork
Published census settlement populations
15,770people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Saint Mary’s Church, Carrigaline illustration: based on a reference by Andrew Wood. AI-assisted watercolour and fine ink adaptation; warm cream paper margins; incidental clutter removed and architectural details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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