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40-619: He was born in Charleville, County Cork into a prominent Anglo-Irish family of Huguenot descent, the second son of Major John Noah Gossett (1793–1870) of the Rifle Brigade and his wife, Maria Margaret Driscoll (1796-1883). He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1840 and was deeply involved in the survey work in Britain 1840 to 1850. He was promoted captain in 1850. He

80-468: A handball court in the area. The local rugby club is Charleville RFC, and soccer club is Charleville AFC. Charleville Golf Club and Charleville Pitch and Putt Club are also based locally. Charleville is twinned with Plouaret – Le Vieux-Marché , Brittany , in France. Aog%C3%A1n %C3%93 Rathaille Aodhagán Ó Rathaille or Egan O'Rahilly (c.1670–1726), was an Irish language poet . He

120-606: A rath or fort in their crest, reflecting the Irish name. The town of Charleville, Queensland , Australia may well have been named after the County Cork town. Charleville was founded in 1661 by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery . Roger Boyle had been a supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War . When King Charles II was restored in 1660, he had to prove his loyalty to the crown. He did this by naming Charleville after

160-619: A local mint in New Westminster ; in 1862 Gosset operated the mint. Gosset was replaced as Treasurer in 1862. In 1873, he returned to Britain to take a more sedate role in a Science and Art Department in London. He retired in 1894. He died on 19 May 1899 at 70 Edith Road in West Kensington in London . In 1852, Gosset at Eton, Berkshire married his cousin, Helena Dorothea Gosset (b. 1830), who

200-608: A part of the Plantation of Munster and Roger subsequently established his residency there after the founding of Charleville. During the time of the Penal Laws , practising the Catholic faith was illegal. As a result, the parish of Charleville was amalgamated with the parishes Bruree and Colmanswell, both in the Diocese of Limerick . In 1704, Fr. Daniel Mac Namara of Bruree was registered as

240-490: A poem on his gratitude at receiving the gift of a pair of shoes) Ó Rathaille clearly hoped for a restoration of his position as ollamh, and celebrated Valentine's marriage to Honora Butler in 1720 in an Epithalamium . However, society had changed vastly in the intervening time; also, the estates had suffered under the mismanagement of John Asgill and were taking a severely reduced income. Valentine Browne either could not or would not restore Ó Rathaille's position. It seems that

280-565: A respected ollamh and travelled to the homes of the Old Irish chiefs where he was treated as an honoured guest. He also worked as a scribe. Ó Rathaille lived through a time of major political and social upheaval in Ireland which was ultimately to result in the crushing of the Irish language and the death of the bardic tradition . The changes in Irish society directly impacted Ó Rathaille's life and resulted in his social status being reduced from that of

320-566: A respected ollamh to a destitute pauper. This transition was a source of huge bitterness to Aodhagán and it was this pathos that drove him to pen much of his poetry. Aodhagán Ó Rathaille was related to the brehons to the Mac Cárthaigh Mór family (and would have seen them as his chiefs and patrons). Due to the Munster plantation , however, the Browne family (later known as Kenmare) had succeeded to

360-419: A short form of the older Irish name. The name Ráth Luirc ["Lorc's rath "] was first attached to Charleville in an 1849 collection of 18th-century Irish-language poems with English translations. The translation of an aisling by Conchúbhar Máistir Ó Ríordáin interpreted Ráth Loirc as denoting the town of Charleville. T. F. O'Rahilly felt that Ráth Loirc , like the more common Clár Loirc ,

400-578: A strong retail sector, It is home to retailers such as Eurogiant, Murrays, Morans, Bridgets, charisma fashions and Noonans Sports. Dunnes Stores recently opened a store in the town center. Charleville is also home to stores and restaurants such as Lidl , Supervalu , Centra , Supermacs , Elverys Sports , Aldi and Amber . Numerous spin-offs both in the town of Charleville and the surrounding area were created when Golden Vale Engineering closed its doors in 1983. The largest amongst these were BCD Engineering, Diamond Engineering and Sapphire Engineering. BCD

440-551: Is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling . It is thought that Ó Rathaille was born in Screathan an Mhil (Scrahanaveal), Gneeveguilla , in the Sliabh Luachra region of County Kerry , into a relatively prosperous family. Patrick S. Dinneen tells us that "his father died while he was still young, leaving his widow in good circumstances. She owned at one time half the townland of Scrahanaveal, which, however, under

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480-721: Is held in the Parochial Hall. The second facility is the Schoolyard Theatre which is home to the Shoestring Theatre group. Charleville is at the junction of the N20 national road and the R515 regional road . The N20 runs north–south from Limerick to Cork cities, the R515 east–west from Tipperary town to near Abbeyfeale . The R578 runs from Charleville to Ballydesmond . Charleville

520-555: Is likely that as a consequence of the loss of the estate by the Brownes, Ó Rathaille had to leave his native district and lived in poverty close by Tonn Tóime , at the edge of Castlemaine Harbour, some 12 miles west of Killarney. On the death of Nicholas Browne in 1720, the Kenmare estates were again placed under the ownership of a Browne – Nicholas' son Valentine (5th Baronent, 3rd Viscount) . Having been destitute for so long (even composing

560-514: Is on Bus Éireann routes 51 (Cork – Limerick – Shannon Airport – Galway ) and 320 (Limerick – Charleville). It is 65 km from both Cork Airport and Shannon Airport. It is approximately 550 km from High Halstow. Charleville railway station is on the Dublin–Cork railway line . It opened in 1849 on the Great Southern and Western Railway . The former Cork–Limerick line branched off

600-655: Is the second largest employer in Charleville. Ireland’s largest independent powered access company CPH www.cphireland.ie is headquartered in Charleville Golden Vale (part of the Kerry Group ) continue to make cheese products in the town. Golden Vale is the largest employer in Charleville. Charleville has numerous pubs as well as two theatre facilities and is home to the North Cork Drama Festival which

640-405: Is the second-largest town between Limerick and Cork , the largest being Mallow . The Roman Catholic parish of Charleville is within the Diocese of Cloyne . Significant industries in the town include Kerry Co-op and the construction and services sectors. The old name for the place was Rathcogan , later Rathgogan or Rathgoggan , the last ( Irish : Ráth an Ghogánaigh ) still the name of

680-416: The civil parish around the town. The name means Cogan's rath ( ringfort ), after the family of Miles de Cogan , granted lands there after the 12th-century Norman invasion . The new town begun by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery in 1661 was named Charleville after Charles II , who had been restored to the throne the previous year. Later Irish speakers referred to the town as An Ráth "the rath",

720-587: The Catholic priest for this very large pastoral area. The fact that Catholics had to attend Mass secretly meant that the old chapel in Holy Cross cemetery was abandoned. The remains of this church – now overgrown with ivy – are still to be seen in the centre of the graveyard. Indeed, like so many other pre-1700 churches, the old church of Holy Cross literally became part of the surrounding graveyard, in that several gravestones, both marked and unmarked, are to be found within

760-511: The Cork–Dublin line at Charleville, continuing via Croom ; the final goods train ran in 1976, since when Limerick Junction , already the junction for Dublin–Limerick, has also been the junction for Cork–Limerick. Secondary schools in the area include CBS Charleville , St. Mary's Secondary School (Charleville) , and Mannix College (which is no longer a secondary School). Other schools include Charleville CBS Primary, St. Anne's, St. Joseph's and

800-499: The English Commission in 1699. The contract was quashed, and in 1703 the estate was sold to John Asgill, who had married a daughter of Nicholas Browne. Under his management, two ruthless and greed-driven men, Timothy Cronin and Murtagh Griffin, collected the hearth money tax from tenants and felled the woods for quick profit. Aodhagán composed a vitriolic mock-eulogy upon the death of Griffin, and another in "honour" of Cronin. It

840-728: The English king. The villages of Brohill and Rathgoggin, who in their former guise preceded the formation of the town of Charleville in the area, fell under the rule of the following political entities: the Eoghanachta of southern Munster, at some point by the Hiberno-Norman Lordships of Ireland 1169–1541 (although this rule was nominal rather than actual), and subsequently by the Kingdom of Desmond 1118 – 1596. The lands of Broghill and Rathgogan were purchased by Roger's father Richard Boyle as

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880-516: The Holy Family School. Charleville's library is located in the former Church of Ireland church of the parish (which went into disrepair in the 1950/1960s when the Protestant population of the area declined). Sporting clubs in the area include Charleville GAA club and Charleville Camogie Club. The Ráth Luirc GAA Sports Centre has squash , badminton and tennis facilities. There is also

920-590: The MacCarthy lands under English occupation. Unlike most of the English settlers, the Brownes soon reverted to their Catholic faith, and made matches with the leading Catholic families in Munster and Leinster—Ó Suilleabháin Mór (O'Sullivan Mor), Fitzgerald of Desmond, MacCarthys, Butlers, O'Briens, Plunketts and many others. Sir Valentine Browne, 3rd Baronet, 1st Viscount (1638–1694) was a supporter of James II , King of England and

960-419: The above details are mostly based on a literal interpretation of his surviving poems. Breandán Ó Buachalla warns against putting too much stock in literal interpretation of the poems, especially regarding his final poem, written on his deathbed. Aodhagán Ó Rathaille is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem (a type of coded poem where Ireland is portrayed as a beautiful woman who bewails

1000-521: The building itself. Upon one such gravestone is a Latin epitaph to none other than Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill (1691–1754), who was, in his time, the Chief Poet of Munster, as well as a native of Charleville. William Alcock Tully , commissioner of Crown lands in the Kennedy and Warrego pastoral districts and 2nd Surveyor General of Queensland spent his formative years here. during this time, He surveyed

1040-471: The current state of affairs and predicts an imminent revival of fortune, usually linked to the return of a Stuart King to the English throne). This style of poetry became a standard in Ireland, where it was dangerous to speak overtly of politics, but a poem disguised as a love song could reveal the singer's and listeners' true feelings. His best-known and most popular poem is the great aisling Gile na Gile ( Brightness Most Bright ), which has been called one of

1080-618: The death of the bardic tradition and the subsequent near-extinction of the Irish language. Ó Rathaille is buried in Muckross Abbey near Killarney in County Kerry . Poet Seamus Heaney and piper Liam O'Flynn perform Gile na Gile on the album The Poet and the Piper . A traditional slow air called Ó Rathaille's Grave is performed by Matt Molloy on the album Stony Steps . It has also been recorded by Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford on

1120-408: The estates. Nicholas Browne's children were still to inherit, so the commissioners of the estate were instructed not to let the estate out for more than 21 years. However, it was let to John Blennerhasset and George Rogers (two members of parliament) for a contract of 61 years. Blennerhasset and Rogers claimed they planned to plant the estate with Protestants when their illegal contract was questioned by

1160-414: The miracles of Irish literature. Dinneen's work on Ó Rathaille, published in 1900, was the first published scholarly edition of the complete works of any of the Irish poets. In 1924, Daniel Corkery devoted a chapter of his groundbreaking book The Hidden Ireland to Ó Rathaille. The final poem composed by Ó Rathaille on his deathbed is one of the finest of Irish literature and the ultimate expression of

1200-399: The rage and loss that Ó Rathaille had been presenting in poetry during most of his life. William Butler Yeats later made reference to this work in his poem The Curse of Cromwell . Ó Rathaille's life can be seen as a microcosm of the changes in culture and society which occurred in Ireland during the end of the 17th century. His loss of status and resultant destitution are direct parallels to

1240-461: The refusal of this request was sufficiently devastating for Ó Rathaille to compose the poem in which he launches a vitriolic attack on the new English gentry like Valentine Browne and makes reference to the failure of the Jacobites as being a primary cause for his own situation. Little historical biographical reference has been found concerning Ó Rathaille's personal circumstances during his life, and

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1280-480: The stress of circumstances, she relinquished, and came to dwell at Cnoc an Chorrfhiaidh, also called Stagmount... Here Egan lived a long time." It may also have been here that Ó Rathaille was trained in the bardic arts. He acquired an excellent education in the bardic school of the MacEgan family ( ollamhs to the Mac Cárthaigh Mór ) and was taught Latin and English as well as Irish literature and history . He became

1320-651: The survey's head clerk. Gosset then served as Colonial Treasurer of British Columbia , arriving in November 1858. He clashed seriously with James Douglas , from 1860. He also uncovered book-keeping issues, and recommended the dismissal of Alexander Caulfield Anderson . In the aftermath of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush , coin was short in British Columbia. In 1861 Douglas sent Gosset, or the assayer Francis George Claudet, to San Francisco , for equipment to set up

1360-624: The townsite of Charleville, Queensland which he named after Charleville, County Cork. Charleville is geographically located at 'the heart of Munster', within the Golden Vale region. It is 60 km from Cork city to the south and 40 km from Limerick city to the north. Charleville lies within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. Charleville is a centre for the food processing industry, with brands such as Charleville Cheese and Golden Vale produced by Kerry Co-Op. Charleville has

1400-460: Was a poetic name for Ireland. D. A. Binchy felt the term, also used by Aogán Ó Rathaille , did refer to a specific place, but likely somewhere in Muskerry , not Charleville. After the 1920 local elections , Sinn Féin -dominated councils loyal to the self-proclaimed Irish Republic often sought to replace placenames having British monarchic allusions with older Gaelic names. Although Rathgoggan

1440-465: Was for his mapping work elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1850, subsequent to his proposal by Charles Piazzi Smyth . In 1855 Gossett was made 6th Surveyor General of Ceylon , succeeding W. H. Simms in this role, and holding the office until 1858. He was succeeded by Charles Sims . He was active in recruiting assistants, interviewing in London; but failed to spot embezzlement by

1480-565: Was given the title Viscount Kenmare in the Jacobite peerage . He was the landlord and patron of Aodhagán Ó Rathaille. However, after the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, Valentine Browne was attainted for his loyalty to the House of Stuart and his property was declared forfeit to King William in 1691. His son Nicholas Browne, 4th Baronet, 2nd Viscount was also a Jacobite supporter and attainted and could not claim

1520-470: Was mooted by Charleville Rural District Council, Risteárd Ó Foghladha ["Fiachra Eilgeach"] advised that Ráth Luirc was the old name, and it was changed to Rathluirc in 1920. Ó Foghladh claimed Lorc was an ancient king of Munster ; in fact Lóegaire Lorc was a mythical High King of Ireland . The Placenames Commission was established in the 1940s to systematically determine the authentic Irish names of places, and based on its advice that An Ráth

1560-675: Was the commonly used name among the last generations of local Irish speakers, this was legally made the Irish name in 1975. Thus the town had the anomalous position that its English-language legal name was an Irish name different from its Irish-language legal name. The name "Charleville" remained in common use. In December 1989, a plebiscite of residents under the Local Government Act 1946 voted on four names: of 2200 electors, 1500 (over 68%) voted for Charleville . Official documents before and after 1989 have often used "Rathluirc (Charleville)" or similar formulations. Local sports teams have

1600-514: Was the daughter of Isaac Gosset (1782 – 1855) and the granddaughter of James Lind of Windsor . They had one son Ernest A. Gossett. Charleville, County Cork Charleville ( Irish : Ráth Luirc or An Ráth ) is a town in County Cork, Ireland . It lies in the Golden Vale , on a tributary of the River Maigue , near the border with County Limerick . Charleville is on the N20 road and

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