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Cong (Irish: Conga, from Cúnga Fheichín meaning "Saint Feichin's narrows") is a village straddling the borders of County Galway and County Mayo, in Ireland.

Cong
Conga or Cunga
Village
Main Street
Cong
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°32′00″N 9°17′00″W
CountryIreland
ProvinceConnacht
CountyCounty Galway and County Mayo
Elevation
21 m (69 ft)
Population
 (2016)[1]
  Total145
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+1 ((IST WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceM150545
Websitehttp://www.congvillage.ie

Geography


Cong is situated on an island formed by a number of streams that surround it on all sides. Cong is located on the isthmus connecting Loughs Corrib and Mask, near the towns of Headford and Ballinrobe and the villages of Clonbur, the Neale and Cross.

Cong is known for its underground streams that connect Lough Corrib with Lough Mask to the north.[2]


History


The 1111 Synod of Ráth Breasail included Cong (Cunga Féichin) among the five dioceses it approved for Connacht, but in 1152 the Synod of Kells excluded it from its list and assigned what would be its territory to the archdiocese of Tuam.[3][4] No longer a residential bishopric, Cunga Féichin is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[5]

Cong was also the home of Anglo-Irish landlord Sir William Wilde, who was also a historian and father to prominent playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer Oscar Wilde.

"The Bard of the West", Micheál Mac Suibhne, who composed his poetry and songs in Connaught Irish, was born at Cong around the year 1760. He spent most of his life in Connemara and died in poverty in about the year 1820.

The Quiet Man's cottage
The Quiet Man's cottage

Cong was the filming location for John Ford's 1952 Oscar-winning film, The Quiet Man,[6] featuring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald. Much of the film was filmed on the grounds of Ashford Castle. The town and castle area remain little changed since 1952, and Cong's connection with the movie make it a tourist attraction. (The film is still celebrated by the local "Quiet Man Fan Club").[7]

Roman Catholic records for Cong do not survive from before 1870. Church of Ireland records from the 18th and 19th centuries have survived, however, and are held at the South Mayo Family Research Centre in nearby Ballinrobe.


Attractions


Ashford Castle
Ashford Castle

Cong is the home of Ashford Castle, a luxury hotel, which was converted from a Victorian faux lakeside castle, built by the Guinness family. Ashford Castle is a tourist attraction in its own right. Cong also features a ruined medieval abbey, Cong Abbey, where Rory O'Connor, the last High King of Ireland, spent his last years.[8] It also is the origin of a piece of Celtic art in the form of a metal cross shrine called the Cross of Cong. The 'Cross of Cong' is now held in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. There is a High Cross in the village.

Carrownagower Bridge, Cong Canal.
Carrownagower Bridge, Cong Canal.

The Cong Canal, built over five years by the Commissioners of Public Works between 1848 and 1854 as a combined scheme to provide navigation, drainage and mill-power. In 1854 the Commissioners abandoned the navigation aspect of the scheme and instructed Samuel Roberts, their engineer, "to suspend the execution of all navigation works in this division of the district, and complete only such as were necessary for the regulation of the waters of Lough Mask, for drainage purposes." Now it is commonly known as the "Dry Canal"; the water level can vary between zero and 3.5 meters depending on the time of year (summer dry, winter full) and is 5 km in length. Built heritage features of the canal remain.[9][10][11][12]


Annalistic references


From the Annals of Tigernach, Annals of Connacht, the Annals of the Four Masters:




See also



References


  1. "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Conga". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. "Geological Survey of Ireland". Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. Michael John Brenan, An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, Dublin 1864, pp. 120–121, 250
  4. John Healy, "Tuam" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
  5. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 877
  6. Cong on County Mayo Site Archived 15 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "The Quiet Man Cong". Member of Travel Ireland Network. 2013. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  8. Webb, Alfred (1878). A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son.
  9. "Brief history of Cong Canal". Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2005.
  10. Hugh McKnight (1987). The Shell Book of Inland Waterways. David & Charles. p. 31. ISBN 0-7153-8239-X.
  11. Maurice Semple (1981). By the Corribside. self-published.
  12. Board of Public Works (1855). Twenty-third Report from the Board of Public Works, Ireland: with appendices. 1854. HMSO.



На других языках


[de] Cong

Cong (irisch Conga, älter auch irisch Conga Fheichín) ist ein Dorf mit 145 Einwohnern (2016)[1] im County Mayo im Westen der Republik Irland.[2] Es liegt nahe der Grenze zum County Galway auf dem etwa fünf Kilometer breiten Isthmus, der Landverbindung, die den Lough Corrib vom Lough Mask trennt. Die beiden Seen sind im Ortsgebiet durch ober- und unterirdische Ströme und Kavernen miteinander verbunden.
- [en] Cong, County Mayo

[ru] Конг (Мейо)

Конг[2] (англ. Cong; ирл. Conga, «теснина святого Фехина») — деревня в Ирландии, находится на границах графств Мейо (провинция Коннахт) и Голуэй.



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