Carriganima is a quiet country village located in the valley of the Foherish River, a tributary of the Sullane which runs into the Lee at Macroom, County Cork. It is located in a pass between two mountain ranges, the Derrynasaggarts and the Boggeraghs.

Carriganima's unique story is told in its landscape. An intense concentration of Neolithic/Bronze age archaeological sites such as stone circles, wedge tombs, stone rows, standing stones, cairns, radial stone cairns and fulachta fiadh tell us something of the area's significance in the past.

An tAthair Peadar O' Laoghaire and also Con Walsh the Olympic Weight Thrower attended the old school at Carriganima.

"An Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoighaire" or the Lament for Art O' Leary, which is recognised as a literary masterpiece, was begun in Carriganima.

Clan name

Carriganima is part of the ancestral home of the O'Keeffes and forms a stage of the Beara-Breifne Greenway which is based on the historic march of O'Sullivan Beara in 1603.

Greenways Festival 2003

Carriganima is talking part in the Greenways Festival in summer 2003 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the legendary 1603 march of O’Sullivan Beara from the Beara Peninsula to the Breifne area. Click here for info on the events