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Kerry Pike

Paidhc na gCiarraíoch

A butter road linked Kerry Pike to trade, while draghunting carried its name through generations of local sport.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of The roadside memorial at Kerry Pike, as photographed in 2008.
Illustration, The roadside memorial at Kerry Pike, as photographed in 2008
Recorded locationKerry Pike51.90792° N · 8.56676° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Paidhc na gCiarraíoch · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Kerry Pike · English · main form

Place & story

The butter-road endpoint

In his account of researching Once Upon A Road, Joe Harrington identifies Kerry Pike as the Cork endpoint of John Murphy’s turnpike from Ballyduhig near Listowel. Murphy secured an Act in 1747, with authority for six toll gates and a 61-year charging period. The road connected Kerry’s countryside with the boundary of Cork city. [2]

People & connections

A draghunting tradition

A 2021 interview with Marie Keating records Kerry Pike’s long association with draghunting. She described how the club joined Fair Hill Harriers after falling membership made independent operation difficult. Keating’s account places family participation and the work of older members at the centre of the club’s survival. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Cork
Barony
Cork
Civil parish
Currykippane
Coordinates
51.90792, -8.56676 (approximate)
Logainm ID
9653 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Kerry Pike. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Books: Story traces the history of the Kerry-Cork butter road — 11 October 2026 · Joe Harrington, The Echo
  3. Marie Keating has never lost her passion for the sport of draghunting — 27 January 2021 · John Coughlan, The Echo
  4. The roadside memorial at Kerry Pike, as photographed in 2008 illustration: based on a Memorial at Kerry Pike, near Cork by Ed Knapen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.