Glanmire
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Glanmire Gleann Maghair
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 Glanmire
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| Coordinates: 51°55′N 8°24′W / 51.917°N 8.400°WCoordinates: 51°55′N 8°24′W / 51.917°N 8.400°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Cork |
| Elevation | 44 m (144 ft) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 8,385 |
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| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
Glanmire (Irish: Gleann Maghair) is a town in the civil parish of Rathcooney in County Cork, Ireland. Glanmire has a population of between c.8,000 and c.10,000, and is situated roughly nine kilometres outside Cork.
The greater Glanmire area encompasses the communities of Riverstown (Baile Roisín), Brooklodge (Cill Ruadháin) and Sallybrook (Áth na Sailí). Upper Glanmire includes White's Cross, Sarsfields Court, Ballyphilip, Ballinaparson, Coolgreen, Templemichael and Buck Leary's Cross.
Glanmire's history dates to early Christian Ireland, with the nearby church site at Rathcooney in use since 1291. The stone bridge located in Riverstown dates to c.1760. At the parish church located on a hill above the village, Sarah Curran, lover of the hanged Robert Emmet married Captain Henry Sturgeon in 1805.
In the 1800s Glanmire was a small yet industrialised village with woolen factories and mills lining the banks of the river Glashaboy. The town expanded substantially in the late 20th century.
There are six primary schools serving the Glanmire area. These include Scoil na nÓg (An Irish Language, boarding and day boarding Primary School, founded in 1958), Scoil Naomh Micheál (Saint Michael's - Upper Glanmire), Scoil Naomh Iosaf (Saint Joseph's - Riverstown), Scoil Chill Ruadháin (Brooklodge Primary School), New Inn and Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil which opened in 2006.
Glanmire has two secondary schools. Glanmire Community College (GCC), established in 1997, is located on a twelve-acre site. The college accommodates a pupil enrolment of approximately one thousand. The Coláiste an Phiarsaigh, opened in 1973, is located in Glanmire Village. It has around 550 students - both day students and weekly boarders. Coláiste an Phiarsaigh is part of the Gaelachas Teoranta Organisation.
Gaelachas Teoranta hosts 'Coláiste Samhraidh', which are residential summer courses that accommodate students between the ages of 10 and 14.
There are nearly eight hundred Irish speakers in the Glanmire area, with 250 pupils attending the Gaelscoil and 550 students in the Gaelcholáiste. There is also a "mini-Gaeltacht" in Ard Bharra whose founders include the traditional musician Tomás Ó Canainn. "The Miller of Glanmire" is a jig named for the town. (See Matt Cranitch's book "Irish Fiddle Tunes".)
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