| Official Name: | Carrignavar |
| Native Name: | Irish: Carraig na bhFear |
| Native Name Lang: | ga |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Munster |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cork |
| Subdivision Type3: | Barony |
| Subdivision Name3: | Barrymore |
| Subdivision Type4: | Civil parish |
| Subdivision Name4: | Dunbulloge and Whitechurch |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population: | 519 |
| Coordinates: | 51.989°N -8.477°W |
| Elevation M: | 120 |
| Blank Name: | OSI grid reference |
| Postal Code Type: | Eircode (Routing Key) |
| Postal Code: | T34 |
Carrignavar ([2] [3]) is a village in County Cork, north of Cork city. It lies east of Whitechurch and west of the R614 road, by a bridge over the Cloghnagash River. For election purposes, Carrignavar is within the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central, and (for planning purposes) is designated a "key village" within the municipal district of Cobh by Cork County Council.[4]
A castle was built at Carrignavar by Donal or Daniel McCarthy, younger brother of the first Viscount Muskerry, of the MacCarthy of Muskerry family.[5] It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.[6] His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,[7] [8] [9] though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained. In the eighteenth century, Charles MacCarthy was a Jacobite sympathiser and patron of late Gaelic poetry; he and his poets converted, at least in form, from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican Church of Ireland to escape the Penal Laws.[10]
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.[8] John Sheedy bought it in the early twentieth century and later sold it to the Sacred Heart Fathers, who opened Sacred Heart College (ga|Coláiste an Chroí Naofa) secondary school there in 1950.[8] [11]
. Patrick Weston Joyce. The origin and history of Irish names of places . 1898 . 1 . London, New York . Longmans, Green and co. . 22. The Irish Local Name System: Systematic Changes.
. John Burke (genealogist). A genealogical and heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. 7 July 2012. II. 1835. Colburn. 610–11. M'Carty, of Carrignavar.