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Crookhaven
Sign in to saveCrookhaven () is a village in County Cork, Ireland, on the most southwestern tip of the island of Ireland. With an out-of-season population of about sixty, it swells in the summer season to about four hundred, when the occupants of the seasonal holiday homes arrive.
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It is catalogued under topics including Pirate dens and locations, Tourist attractions in County Cork and Towns and villages in County Cork.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Cork
- Area
- 2.57
- Elevation
- 11
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.crookhaven.ie
- Image
- Le beau petit phare de Crookhaven.jpg
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- inception
- 1843-00-00
- Irish Grid Reference
- V805255
- Commons category
- Crookhaven
- historic county
- County Cork
- native label
- An Cruachán
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Crookhaven () is a village in County Cork, Ireland, on the most southwestern tip of the island of Ireland. With an out-of-season population of about sixty, it swells in the summer season to about four hundred, when the occupants of the seasonal holiday homes arrive.
==History== The village name is attributed to an association with the Crooke family, and initially with Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet who also founded Baltimore, County Cork about 1610. The Crooke family were granted large estates in west Cork in the early 17th century, but their association with the area ended around 1665, on the death of Sir Thomas's son and heir Sir Samuel. In the late 1500s and early 1600s the village was used as a base for piracy - where not only the local justices (including the vice-admiral of Munster) but the broader population were involved. These activities were unaffected by official discouragement under King James VI and I, but the Dutch attack on Crookhaven in 1614 did significant damage and piracy in the region declined thereafter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crookhaven” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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