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Cahersiveen[7][8] (Irish: Cathair Saidhbhín, meaning 'Little Sadhbh's stone ringfort'), sometimes Cahirciveen, is a town on the N70 national secondary road in County Kerry, Ireland. As of the 2016 CSO census, the town had a population of 1,041.[1]

Cahersiveen Cathair Saidhbhín
Town
Cahersiveen
Cahersiveen Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51.948°N 10.224°W / 51.948; -10.224
Country	Ireland
Province	Munster
County	County Kerry
Elevation	79 m (259 ft)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Urban	1,041
Irish Grid Reference	V469795

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1831	1,192	—
1841	1,492	+25.2%
1851	1,862	+24.8%
1861	1,802	−3.2%
1871	1,925	+6.8%
1881	2,003	+4.1%
1891	1,987	−0.8%
1901	2,013	+1.3%
1911	1,896	−5.8%
1926	1,773	−6.5%
1936	1,680	−5.2%
1946	1,779	+5.9%
1951	1,687	−5.2%
1956	1,801	+6.8%
1961	1,659	−7.9%
1966	1,649	−0.6%
1971	1,547	−6.2%
1981	1,428	−7.7%
1986	1,310	−8.3%
1991	1,213	−7.4%
1996	1,250	+3.1%
2002	1,272	+1.8%
2006	1,294	+1.7%
2011	1,168	−9.7%
2016	1,041	−10.9%
[2][3][4][5][6]

Geography

Cahersiveen is on the slopes of 376-metre-high Bentee, and on the lower course of the River Ferta. It is the principal settlement of the Iveragh Peninsula, near Valentia Island, and is connected to the Irish road network by the N70 road.

History

Cahersiveen was where the first shots of the Fenian Rising were fired in 1867.

Railway

Cahersiveen was served from 1893 to 1960 by the Cahersiveen railway station on the Great Southern and Western Railway.[9]

Mentions in literature

Patrick O'Brian's novel "Post Captain" gives Cahersiveen as the location of the character Stephen Maturin's childhood home in Ireland.

At present two Highlanders were talking slowly to an Irishman in Gaelic ... as he lay there on his stomach to ease his flayed back. 'I follow them best when I do not attend at all,' observed Stephen, 'it is the child in long clothes that understands, myself in Cahirciveen."[10]

Cahirciveen is the central city in Brian Moore's futuristic novel "Catholics"

Places of interest

The Catholic church in the town is the only one in Ireland named after a layperson, Daniel O'Connell.[8]

The decommissioned Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, dating to the 1870s and now a heritage centre, was built in the distinctive "Schloss" style favoured by its architect, Enoch Trevor Owen. Because of this, it is often claimed to have been mistakingly built from the plans for a British barracks in India – a common myth heard in many Irish garrison towns.

The stone forts of Cahergall and Leacanabuaile stand close to each other a short distance from the town.

The ruins of Ballycarbery Castle are near to Cahergall and Leacanabuaile.

The town falls within the Kerry International Dark-Sky Reserve, the first Gold Tier Reserve in the northern hemisphere and one of only four Gold Tier Dark-Sky Reserves on earth.

Education

The town's primary school, Scoil Saidbhín, opened in September 2015. This is an amalgamation of Scoil Mhuire, a boys' primary school and St Joseph's Convent, a girls' primary school. There are four primaries in the parish of Cahersiveen, including those in the town's hinterland: Aghatubrid National School, Coars National School, and Foilmore National School. Aghatubrid was established in 1964 and as of 2019 had about 75 students.[11]

Coláiste Na Sceilge is the town’s co-educational secondary school. Over 530 pupils attend from all around the Iveragh Peninsula.

An t-Aonad Lán-Ghaeilge is the local Gaelscoil - an all Irish-speaking class for 1st to 3rd-year students, where students do all their learning through Irish.[12]

Notable people

• Donie O'Sullivan, journalist working for CNN
• Jerry Grogan
• Daniel O'Connell (The Liberator) [13]
• Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (The Scarlet Pimpernel) [14]

Gallery

• 
  Gate to Holy Well on New Street
• 
  Cahersiveen Barracks
• 
  Main Street
• 
  Corner of Main Street and O'Connell Street
• 
  O'Connell Street
• 
  West Main Street

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Market Houses in Ireland
• Cahirciveen railway station

References

9 'The Kerry Foot' from BLOODROOT (Doire Press, 2017) by poet Annemarie Ni Churreain republished by Summer 2017 The Stinging Fly

На других языках

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- [en] Cahersiveen

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[ru] Кэрсивин

Кэрсивин[2] (Кахерсивин; англ. Cahirciveen; ирл. Cathair Saidhbhín) — (переписной) посёлок в Ирландии, находится в графстве Керри (провинция Манстер).

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