What is recorded here
Kanturk, County Cork, is the birthplace of Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, who emerged in 1877 to challenge the rigid boundaries of womanhood and citizenship. The town holds the quiet origin of a life that would reshape Irish law, carrying her father's nationalist fire and her own unyielding mind into the wider world.
Why this person is known: Irish feminist & nationalist (1877–1946)
- Birthplace
- Kanturk
Places near here
Kanturk Trades Union Hallhall · 284 yd
Greenane Househouse · 402 yd
Hanna SheehyMemorial · 787 yd
Burial ground in Curragh (duhallow By., Clonfert Par.)Burial ground · 818 yd
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1060 yd
Kanturk CastleHeritage attraction · 1247 yd
CastleCastle, unclassified · 2.0 mi
Ballyheen Castle (Site of)Castle, unclassified · 2.3 mi
Burial ground in AssolasBurial ground · 2.4 mi
European YewEuropean Yew · 2.6 mi
St Fursey's WellSpring · 2.8 mi
Stanner's Glen, Priory WoodWood · 4.2 miOther information
Photo: Underwood & Underwood, New York · Public domain