Curraghbinny (Irish: Corra Binne),[1] also sometimes spelled Currabinny or Currabinney,[2] is a townland in County Cork, Ireland.[3] Located on Cork Harbour near Ringaskiddy and with an area of 2.4 square kilometres (240 ha), it is a townland in the barony of Kerrycurrihy.[3] As of the 2011 census, Curraghbinny townland had a population of 155 people.[4]
Lough Beg Bird Reserve and Curraghbinny Wood are located in the area.[2][5] Curraghbinny Wood, a forested amenity of approximately 35 hectares (86 acres), contains the remains of a Bronze Age cairn which is known locally as the "giant's grave".[6][7][8] The cairn, which was subject to excavation in the 1930s (during which cremated human remains and a bronze ring were found), was restored in the 1990s.[8][9] There is a plaque to the Irish-Canadian politician, William Warren Baldwin, within the wood.[10][11]
There is a large pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, which was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m in 2019, in Curraghbinny townland.[12]
Curraghbinny, Carrigaline, Co. Cork [..] 155
On top of a hill in Curraghbinny wood at E tip of E-W ridge, overlooking Cork Harbour [..] Excavated in 1932 by O Ríordáin (1933, 80-4) who found a cairn of stone enclosed by rough dry-stone wall [..and..] fragmentary cremated human bone and charcoal between stones of circle [..] The monument was taken into State Care in 1984 and the cairn was reinstated in July 1998
Late last year, the Currabinny site was acquired by Thermo Fisher from GlaxoSmithKline for €90m