Ballyvourney
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Ballyvourney is a Gaeltacht village in southwest County Cork, Ireland. Ballyvourney is also a civil parish in the barony of Muskerry West, and an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Ruin of former Colthurst residence, The Mills Inn, Ballyvourney
Statue of Saint Gobnait
Former church of the Church of Ireland and ruins of St Gobnait's priory
Údarás na Gaeltachta signage at Ballyvourney's business park
Seán Ó Riada
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Seán Ó Riada was an Irish composer and arranger of Irish traditional music. Through his incorporation of modern and traditional techniques he became the single most influential figure in the revival o
Ballyvourney
…The abbey contains an example of a Sheela na Gigand there are a number of stone circles, stone rows and fulachtaí fia in the area. The composer Seán Ó Riada is buried in the cemetery there. The sean-nós singer Elizabeth Cronin spent her whole life in the area. The village gives its name to an Irish dance…
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Séan Ó Riada in Copper Sculpture
Seán Ó Riada Sculpture in Cúil Aodha church yard
Ó Riada's gravestone, near St Gobnait's well.