Image:Img1.gif.jpgBallydesmond (Baile Deasumhan in Irish) is a rural village in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, situated on the Blackwater River, near its rising in Menganine, directly on the Cork-Kerry border. Boasting a fine football pitch, the Nora Herlihy Park, unique in that it is one of only two G.A.A. pitches named after women, the other being Countess Markevitcz in County Sligo. Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2002) 447,829 Website: www. ... This article is unconnected to the various rivers named Blackwater: see Blackwater River (note capitalization) Blackwater rivers are rivers with waters colored like clear tea to coffee. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: coord}}}_N_{{{west coord}}}_W_{{{region:IE_type:city}}} {{{north coord}}}° N {{{west coord}}}° W Irish Grid Reference grid}}} {{{irish grid}}} Statistics Province: Munster County: District: County Town: Tralee Code: KY Area: 4,746 km² Elevation: Population: Website: www. ... Countess Markiewicz Constance Georgine Markiewicz (4 February 1868–15 July 1927), was an Irish politician and nationalist. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ...

Ballydesmond is a thriving local economic centre, dominated by the number two; two shops, two pubs, two funeral homes, two primary schools, two petrol stations. Ballydesmond is home too, to the international company that is Munster Joinery, which employs over 1000 people from the locality. Ballydesmond is home to the local football team which sports the colours of yellow and blue. The team which has been successful in recent years within the Duhallow division at Junior A level, is equally representative of both sides of the border. An ever expanding town on the main Cork-to-Tralee link, Ballydesmond boasts a history of a quite distinctive nature. Established as a model village, and named after the reigning British king, Kingwilliamstown was later renamed after Independence. Ballydesmond, in Irish Bailedeasumhain, meaning town of the Desmond, was named after the legendary freedom fighter, the Earl of Desmond, who it is believed hid out in the nearby hills. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 51. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ... Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond (c. ...

Ballydesmond is also home to the Tureengarriffe ambush, where British officers were killed during the Irish War of Independence by untrained members of the local flying column. An Irish War of Independence memorial in Dublin The Anglo-Irish War (also known as the Irish War of Independence) was a guerrilla campaign mounted against the British government in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army under the proclaimed legitimacy of the First Dáil, the extra-legal Irish parliament...

See also

• List of towns in the Republic of Ireland