CLONAKILTY  , a seaport and

market town of Co . Cork, Ireland, in the south parliamentary division, at the head of Clonakilty Bay, 33 M . S.W. of Cork on a branch of the Cork, Bandon & South Coast railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 3098 . It was brought into prosperity by Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, and was granted a charter in 1613; but was partly demolished on the occasion of a fight between the English and Irish in 1641 . It returned two members to the Irish parliament until the union . In the 18th century there was an extensive linen industry . The present trade is centred in brewing, corn-milling, yarn and farm-produce . The harbour-mouth is obstructed by a bar, and there is a pier for large vessels at Ring, a mile below the town . The fisheries are of importance . A ruined church on the island of Inchdorey, and castles on Galley Head, at Dunnycove, and at Dunowen, together with a stone circle, are the principal antiquities in the neighbourhood .