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Carrigaline| Town in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, on Drake's Pool off the Owenboy River estuary, 12 km/7 mi south of Cork; population (2002) 9,300. Renowned for its pottery established in 1928, it is was planned as a satellite town for Cork city in the 1970s and is now chiefly a dormitory suburb. Other industries include electronics and engineering. |
| The settlement was founded by the Normans, who built Beauvoir Castle on a nearby outcrop of rock. Carrigaline Castle, another fortress built in 1171 on a high limestone bluff adjacent to the town, still retains its Norman tower. Drake's Pool commemorates the English buccaneer and explorer Francis Drake, who concealed his ships in the estuary in 1587 when pursued by a Spanish fleet. |
| Features include a Church of Ireland church, which is over 250 years old. |
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