New Twopothouse (Irish: Tigh Nua an Dá Phota)[2] is a small village and census town in County Cork, Ireland.[3] It is located in the civil parish of Caherduggan,[2] on the N20 road between Mallow and Buttevant. The nearest major town is Mallow, 5 km to the south.
New Twopothouse
Tigh Nua an Dá Phota | |
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Village | |
 The R581 regional road between New Twopothouse and Old Twopothouse | |
  New Twopothouse Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°11′10″N 8°40′16″W / 52.186°N 8.671°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | Cork |
| Population (2016)[1] | 120 |
| Irish Grid Reference | R541039 |
The area takes its name from an 18th century coaching inn, the "Two-Pot House Inn", which was (in turn) reputedly named for two large beer "pots" which were placed outside the inn.[4] In the 19th century, when a newer Cork to Limerick road (now the N20) was built, a coaching stop was opened and it was named "New Two-Pot-House" to distinguish it from the coaching stop on the older road.[5][6]
The local Roman Catholic church, St. Joseph the Worker church, is in the neighbouring townland of Twoposthouse (sometimes known as Old Twopothouse) and was built c. 1925.[7] The national (primary) school in New Twopothouse, Baltydaniel National School, had 209 pupils enrolled as of 2019.[8]
New Twopothouse was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census,[3] at which time it had a population of 120 people.[1]
As of 2024. the village is served by many buses every day, including Bus Éirean route 51 which runs from Cork to Galway via Limerick.[9] There are also Local Link buses: route 522 between Charleville and Mallow,[10] and route 523 between Mitchelstown and Mallow.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - New Twopothouse". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Tigh Nua an Dá Phota / New Twopothouse". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Census of Population 2016 - Profile 2 Population Distribution and Movement". cso.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
26 new census towns were created for the 2016 Census [..including..] New Twopothouse
- ^ "From Bweeng to New Twopothouse - Weird and wonderful Cork place names". corkbeo.ie. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "53 acres of deep soil near Newtwopothouse". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Two-Pot Dictator – An Irishman's Diary about an eccentric Cork placename". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Church, Two-Pot-House, Oldtwopothouse, Cork". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Whole School Evaluation Management, Leadership and Learning Report - Baltydaniel National School - Newtwopothouse, Mallow, County Cork" (PDF). education.ie. Department of Education. 6 March 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Expressway Route 51, Galway - Limerick - Cork". Bus Éireann. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "522 CHARLEVILLE - MALLOW". Local Link Cork. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "523 MITCHELSTOWN - MALLOW". Local Link Cork. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
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