Banteer is a small town in north county Cork in southern Ireland. It is near the larger town of Mallow, County Cork. Located in the district of northern Cork known as Duhallow, it is on the Dublin to Tralee railway line. Local sporting organisations include a Gaelic football club known simply as "Banteer". County Cork (Contae Chorcaà in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... Mallow (Mala, Magh Eala, and other variations in Irish) is the Crossroads of Munster and the administrative capital of north County Cork, in Ireland. ... The Barony of Duhallow is located in the nortwester part of County Cork in the province of Munster in Ireland. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Ãtha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland (and the island of Ireland), located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. ... Tralee (Irish: Trá LÃ) is the county town of County Kerry, in the southwest corner of Ireland. ... Gaelic Football action Gaelic football (Irish: peil ghaelach) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland where it is the most popular sport. ...
In 1651, the battle of Knocknaclashy, the last pitched battle of the Irish Confederate Wars, took place near the village, when English Parliamentarians under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery defeated an Irish force under Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry. The battle of Knocknaclashy, took place in county Cork in southern Ireland in 1651. ... The Irish Confederate Wars were fought in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. ... Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (April 25, 1621 - October 26, 1679), British soldier, statesman and dramatist, 3rd surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was created baron of Broghill on February 28, 1627. ...
Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, FRSC (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin.
At the pinnacle of his brilliant career, Banting was killed on February 21, 1941, when the Lockheed Hudson patrol bomber he was travelling to England in crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
His name is immortalized in the yearly Banting Lecture, given by an expert in diabetes and by the creation of Banting Memorial High School in Alliston, ON; Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School in London, ON; Sir Frederick Banting Alternative Program Site in Ottawa, ON and École Banting Middle School in Coquitlam, BC.
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