Dunmanway

Dunmanway
Dúnmaonmhuí
Town
Dún Mánmhaí
Statue of Sam Maguire in the town square
Statue of Sam Maguire in the town square
Dunmanway is located in Ireland
Dunmanway
Dunmanway
Coordinates: 51°43′15″N 9°6′46″W / 51.72083°N 9.11278°W / 51.72083; -9.11278
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCork
Town charter23 November 1693
Population
 (2022)[1]
1,964
Time zoneUTC0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (IST)
Area code023
Websitevisitdunmanway.ie

Dunmanway (Irish: Dúnmaonmhuí,[2] official Irish name: Dún Mánmhaí)[3] is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is named. The town centre is built on and around two rivers, which are tributaries of the larger River Bandon, which passes by at the east end of the town.

The town is twinned with Quéven, France. Dunmanway won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1982.[4] The town came to national and international attention in 2009 when Liverpool Football Club played a pre-season soccer friendly in the area.

The population of Dunmanway at the 2011 census was 1,585,[5] rising to 1,964 by the 2022 census.[6]

  1. ^ "Census Interactive Map - Towns: Dunmanway - Population Snapshot". visual.cso.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ Ó Coileáin, Barra (2004). "Chairman's Address". Dunmanway Doings. 1 (1): v.
  3. ^ "Dún Mánmhaí / Dunmanway (see archival records)". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  4. ^ "The Tidy Towns of Ireland "Celebrating 50 years"" (PDF). tidytowns.ie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 April 2016.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference census2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Dunmanway (Ireland) Census Town". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 29 August 2024.