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{{short description|Town in County Cork, Ireland}}
{{Other uses}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
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|official_name          = Fermoy
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|native_name_lang       = ga
|motto = {{langx|ga|Seasaigí Go Buan}}<br/> Let you stand forever
|image_skyline          = Fermoy Weir.JPG
|image_caption          = The weir on the [[Munster Blackwater]] through Fermoy
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|subdivision_type       = Country
|subdivision_name       = Ireland
|subdivision_type1      = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1      = [[Munster]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|subdivision_name2      = [[County Cork]]
|unit_pref              = Metric
|elevation_m            = 50
|area_urban_footnotes   = <ref name=cso2016>{{cite web | url = http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?MainTable=E2014&PLanguage=0&PXSId=0 | title = Population Density and Area Size 2016 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)]] | access-date = 26 December 2017 | archive-date = 24 March 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190324025223/https://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?MainTable=E2014&PLanguage=0&PXSId=0 | url-status = live }}</ref>
|area_total_km2         = 4.6
|population_as_of       = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]]
|population_footnotes   = <ref name="census2022"/>
|population             = 6,720
|population_density_km2 = auto
| area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland|Telephone area code]]
| area_code = +353(0)25
| postal_code_type        =[[Eircode]] routing key
| postal_code             =P61
|timezone                = [[Western European Time|WET]]
|utc_offset              = ±0
|timezone_DST            = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]]
|utc_offset_DST          = +1
|website                = {{URL|fermoy.ie}}
}}
{{Historical populations|state=collapsed
|1821|6702
|1831|6976
|1841|6379
|1851|5846
|1861|8705
|1871|7388
|1881|6454
|1891|6469
|1901|6126
|1911|6863
|1926|4510
|1936|4123
|1946|4213
|1951|4017
|1956|3674
|1961|3667
|1966|3721
|1971|4033
|1981|4888
|1986|4885
|1991|4462
|1996|4469
|2002|4804
|2006|5673
|2011|6489
|2016|6585
|2022|6720
| footnote=<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures. |access-date=1 August 2009 |archive-date=20 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090814/http://cso.ie/census |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=NISRA – Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency |publisher=Nisranew.nisra.gov.uk |access-date=26 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last=Lee
| first=JJ
| author-link =J. J. Lee (historian)
| editor-last=Goldstrom
| editor-first=J. M.
| editor2-last=Clarkson
| editor2-first=L. A.
| title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell
| year=1981
| publisher=Clarendon Press
| location=Oxford, England
| chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
| last1 = Mokyr
| first1 = Joel
| author-link = Joel Mokyr
| last2 = Ó Gráda
| first2 = Cormac
| title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850
| journal = The Economic History Review
| volume =  37
| issue =  4
| pages = 473–488
|date=November 1984
| url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 2012-12-04
| doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x
| hdl = 10197/1406
| hdl-access = free
}}</ref><ref name=cso2016/><ref name="census2022">{{cite web|url = https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/ima/cop/2022&boundary=C04160V04929&guid=0598e968-5b4b-44b0-8e85-410f73861817 | title = Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Fermoy | work = Census 2022 | publisher = [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office]]| access-date = 28 September 2023}}</ref>
}}

'''Fermoy''' ({{Irish place name|Mainistir Fhear Maí|monastery of the men of the plain}})<ref>{{cite book |last=Room |first=Adrian |author-link=Adrian Room |date=1993 |title=Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pMo6tAEACAAJ |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |page=136 |isbn=0747505055 |access-date=18 October 2023 }}</ref> is a town on the [[Munster Blackwater|River Blackwater]] in east [[County Cork]], Ireland. As of the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,700 people.<ref name="census2022"/> It is located in the [[barony (Ireland)|historical barony]] of [[Condons and Clangibbon]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/10133.aspx |title=Mainistir Fhear Maí / Fermoy |access-date=31 July 2023 | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland |website = logainm.ie }}</ref> and is in the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Cork East (Dáil constituency)|Cork East]].

The town's name is of Irish origin and refers to a [[Cistercian]] abbey founded in the 13th century. This abbey is believed to have been founded by [[Domnall Mór Ua Briain]], King of Thomond.

==History==
[[File:avondhu05.jpg|thumb|Mick Davis's sculpture from 2001 referencing Cistercian monks in Fermoy]]

===Ancient===
The ringfort at [[Carntierna]] on top of Corrin hill, 2.4&nbsp;km (1.5&nbsp;mi) south of Fermoy, was an important [[Iron Age]] site.

===Medieval times===
A Cistercian abbey was founded in Fermoy in the 13th century. At the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] during the Tudor period, the abbey and its lands passed through the following dynasties: Sir Richard Grenville, [[Robert Boyle]] and William Forward. However, the site could hardly have been regarded as a town and, by the late 18th century, was little more than a few cabins and an inn.

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[File:Queen's Square, Fermoy, Co. Cork (21915894484).jpg|thumb|Pearse Square (then Queens Square) in Fermoy, c.1900]]
In 1791, the lands around Fermoy were bought by a Scotsman, [[John Anderson (Scottish businessman)|John Anderson]]. He was an entrepreneur who developed the roads and started the mail coach system in Ireland. He designed the town and the streets remain much the same as they were originally built. In 1984, some of his descendants, living in Australia, named a winery, [[Fermoy Estate]], after the town he established.<ref>{{Zekulich-WineWA|page=159.}}</ref> A plaque and bust in his honour were unveiled at the entrance to the town park in 2001.

====Garrison town====
Fermoy was the site of [[Fermoy Barracks]], a large [[British Army]] barracks, when [[British rule in Ireland|Ireland was under British rule]]. In 1797, when the army was looking to establish a new and permanent base, Anderson gave them the land as an inducement to locate in Fermoy. Anderson and the town received economic benefit from the arrangement. In 1806 the first permanent barracks, the East Barracks, were built. They were located on 16{{frac|1|2}} acres of land, and provided accommodation for 112 officers and 1478 men of infantry, and 24 officers, 120 men, and 112 horses of cavalry. A general 130-bed military hospital was also built. In 1809, the West Barracks was built. This also had a 42-bed hospital. When both barracks were complete, there was accommodation for 14 field officers, 169 officers, 2,816 men, and 152 horses. By the 1830s, this was the largest military establishment on the island of Ireland. The town of Fermoy expanded around these facilities and retained its British military facilities until 1922, when the [[Irish Free State]] was first established.

===20th century===

During the [[Irish War of Independence]] the [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|Irish Republican Army]] (led by the commandant of the Cork Number Two Brigade [[Liam Lynch (Irish republican)|Liam Lynch]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Macardle |first=Dorothy |author-link= |date=1965 |title=The Irish Republic |url= |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |page=307 |isbn=}}</ref> launched an attack using motor vehicles against a group of off-duty [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]] (KSLI) soldiers on 7 September 1919 as they were attending a [[Wesleyan Church]] parade in Fermoy. The IRA killed one soldier ([[Private (rank)|Pte]]. William Jones from [[Talog, Carmarthenshire|Talog]] in [[Wales]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=19 September 1919 |title=The Fermoy Murder. Funeral of the Victim at Conwil |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3679516/3679517/13 |journal=The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser |volume=Second Edition |pages=1}}</ref>), wounded four and disarmed the rest of their weapons. After jurors from Fermoy serving on Jones' [[coroner]] inquest refused to return a verdict describing his death as a murder, 200 soldiers from the KSLI launched an unofficial reprisal against businesses owned by the jury, looting several [[drapery]] and [[Shoemaking|shoe stores]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Bennett|first=Richard|title=The Black and Tans|year=1959|publisher=Four Square|page=16}}</ref>

During the [[Irish Civil War]] anti treaty forces were compelled to evacuate Fermoy and burned the barracks and other buildings before retreating into surrounding hills (10 August 1922).<ref>Macardle, p.776</ref>

==Demographics==
As of the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], Fermoy had a population of 6,720. Of these, 66% were white Irish, 1% white Irish travellers, 20% other white ethnicities, 2% were black, 2% Asian, 2% other ethnicities and 7% did not state their ethnicity. In terms of religion the area was 71% [[Catholic]], 9% other stated religions, 13% had no religion, and 7% did not state a religion.<ref name="census2022"/>

==Geography==
Fermoy is situated on the river Blackwater and has steep hills corresponding to the river valley. The downtown area of Fermoy is located in a flood plain and has flooded relatively often in the late 20th and early 21st century.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.opw.ie/en/flood-risk-management/operations/flooddefenceschemes/fermoyflooddefencescheme/ | publisher = Office of Public Works | title = Fermoy Flood Defence Scheme | access-date = 13 February 2017 | quote = "''Fermoy, County Cork has a long history of flooding [...] with major events occurring approximately 15 times in the last 30 years''" | archive-date = 14 February 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170214003933/http://www.opw.ie/en/flood-risk-management/operations/flooddefenceschemes/fermoyflooddefencescheme/ | url-status = live }}</ref> The most expensive flood prevention works ever carried out in Cork were completed in Fermoy in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/fermoy-flood-prevention-work-almost-complete-283682.html|title=Fermoy flood prevention work almost complete|date=2014-08-27|access-date=2017-12-10|archive-date=10 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210232040/http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/fermoy-flood-prevention-work-almost-complete-283682.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] of Fermoy incorporates the Fermoy Urban [[electoral division (Ireland)|electoral division]] (ED), much of the Fermoy Rural ED, and includes twelve [[townland|sub-townlands]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.townlands.ie/cork/fermoy1/#townlands | publisher = Townlands.ie | title = Civil Parish of Fermoy - Townlands | access-date = 21 March 2018 | archive-date = 22 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180322081838/https://www.townlands.ie/cork/fermoy1/#townlands | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/cork/fermoy-rural/#townlands | publisher = Townlands.ie | title = Fermoy Rural Electoral Division, Co. Cork - Townlands | accessdate = 28 September 2023 }}</ref>

==Economy==
Industries in and around the town include chemical production (by Micro Bio), ice-cream manufacturing (by Silver Pail), and power product manufacturing (by Anderson Power). The town's industries also include electronics manufacturing and assembly by [[Sanmina-SCI Corporation]], formerly Space Craft Incorporated.
Moorepark Research Institute, near Fermoy, is one of the Irish state's [[Teagasc|agricultural and food research institutes]].

==Education==
Local secondary schools include [[St. Colman's College, Fermoy|St. Colman's College]], Loreto Convent and Coláiste an Chraoibhín. Primary schools include Gaelscoil de hÍde, Presentation Primary School, Bishop Murphy Memorial School, St. Josephs National School, Adair National School and Grange National School.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}

==Tourism==
[[File:IMG Fermoy3721rz.jpg|thumb|Former Grand Hotel, Fermoy]]
The Blackwater river is one of the town's major attractions and is popular for its salmon and coarse fishing. There is also a river-side walk amenity at Barnane.

Two annual regattas are usually in early May and early September and hosted by Fermoy Rowing Club.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} Fermoy Rowing Club celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/club-plans-125th-birthday-bash-27069072.html|title=Club plans 125th birthday bash|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date=2 April 2009|access-date=30 September 2020}}</ref> and Fermoy Regatta celebrated its 70th anniversary in the same year.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

Fermoy hosted a poetry festival for the first time in 2012.<ref>{{cite web| title=Fermoy poetry festival| url=http://www.fermoypoetryfestival.com| access-date=27 July 2012| archive-date=25 June 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625090953/http://www.fermoypoetryfestival.com/| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Transport==
[[File:Fermoy new R639.JPG|thumb|The [[R639]] through Fermoy]]
For many years the main [[N8 road (Ireland)|N8]] [[Cork (city)|Cork]]–[[Dublin]] [[Roads in Ireland|road]] ran through Fermoy, and the town square was a bottleneck on the route. However, the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8 motorway]] bypass, which included a new bridge over the [[Munster Blackwater|Blackwater]] to the east of the town was opened in late 2006. The former N8 through the town is now a [[Regional road (Ireland)|regional road]], the [[R639 road|R639]], and Fermoy's traffic problems have been eased.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

The town used to be connected to the [[Rail transport in Ireland|Irish railway system]], on a line from [[Mallow, County Cork|Mallow]] to [[Waterford]], with a junction to nearby [[Mitchelstown]] through [[Ballindangan]] (see [[History of rail transport in Ireland|Irish railway history]]). Fermoy railway station opened on 17 May 1860, and finally closed on 27 March 1967.<ref>{{cite web | title=Fermoy station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=14 October 2007 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>

The nearest airport is [[Cork Airport]], approximately {{convert|45|km|mi|abbr=off}} to the south.

A number of bus services serve the area, including the [[Bus Éireann]] Cork-Dublin 245X route and Cork-[[Clonmel]] 245 route, which stop at Fermoy.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

==Religion==
The [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothers]], the [[Presentation Sisters|Presentation]] and [[Sisters of Loreto|Loreto Sisters]] and [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] maintain a presence in the town. There is also a Church of Ireland (Anglican) church, Christ Church, and a Presbyterian church.

==People==
{{see also|Category:People from Fermoy}}
* [[Patrick Collins (mayor)|Patrick Collins]] (1844–1905), a [[US Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]] and mayor of [[Boston]], was born near Fermoy.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/COLLINS,-Patrick-Andrew-(C000641)/ | publisher = US House of Representatives | website = history.house.gov | title = People - Collins, Patrick Andrew | accessdate = 1 April 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Disappearance of Conor and Sheila Dwyer|Conor and Sheila Dwyer]], a married couple who disappeared in 1991 in what has been described as one of Ireland's most puzzling missing persons cases.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41626543.html|title=Gardaí issue fresh appeal for Cork couple missing since 1991|date=May 5, 2025|website=EchoLive.ie}}</ref> 
* [[Mary Hegarty]], Irish operatic soprano{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* [[John Stanislaus Joyce]] (1849–1931), father of [[James Joyce]], was educated in Fermoy.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://avondhupress.ie/james-joyces-paternal-links-fermoy-cork/ | work = Avondhu Press | title = James Joyce's paternal links to Fermoy and Cork | date = 17 June 2017 | accessdate = 25 August 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Cionneach mac Cionnich|Kenneth MacKenzie]] (1758-c.1837), highly praised poet during what [[Celticist]] Robert Dunbar termed the "eighteenth century Golden Age" of [[Scottish Gaelic literature]],<ref>Edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle (2020), ''North American Gaels: Speech, Song, and Story in the Diaspora'', [[McGill-Queen's University Press]]. Page 287.</ref> who, towards the end of his life, was [[postmaster]] of Fermoy<ref>Black, Ronald I.M. (ed.). ''An Lasair: an anthology of 18th-century Scottish Gaelic verse''. Edinburgh, 2001. p. 509.</ref><ref name="manuscripts.nls.uk">[https://manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories/2/resources/20143 Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916)] [[National Library of Scotland]].</ref>
* [[John Magnier]], owner of [[Coolmore Stud]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/the-quiet-head-of-a-racing-empire-1.315734 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = The quiet head of a racing empire | date =30 June 2001 | accessdate = 1 April 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Noel Mahony]] (1913–2006), first-class cricketer and president of the [[Cricket Ireland|Irish Cricket Union]].<ref name="CE">{{cite web |url=https://www.cricketeurope.com/IRELAND/PLAYERS/436/index.shtml |title=Player profile: Noel Cameron Mahony |publisher=CricketEurope |access-date=2018-11-03 |archive-date=3 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103170542/https://www.cricketeurope.com/IRELAND/PLAYERS/436/index.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[James McConnell (engineer)|James McConnell]] (1815–1883) was born in Fermoy, and was a founder member of the [[Institution of Mechanical Engineers]].{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* [[Arthur O'Callaghan]] (1837–1930), Member of Parliament in New Zealand<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=224}}</ref>
* [[Michelle O'Neill]], deputy leader of [[Sinn Féin]] and [[First Minister and deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland|First Minister of Northern Ireland]], was born in Fermoy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Michelle O'Neill - Acceptance speech as Leas Uachtarán Shinn Féin|url=https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/48189|access-date=2021-04-23|website=www.sinnfein.ie|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423221253/https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/48189|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Patrick Rice]] (1945–2010), a human rights activist, was born in Fermoy.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/human-rights-activist-pat-rice-dies-at-64-1.619309 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = Human rights activist Pat Rice dies at 64 | date = 9 July 2010 | accessdate = 1 April 2021 | archive-date = 21 October 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121021105255/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0709/1224274349711.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[Mike Ross (rugby union)|Mike Ross]], professional [[rugby union]] player for [[Leinster Rugby|Leinster]] and [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]], went to school in Fermoy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stcolmanscollege.com/mikeross/index.htm|title=Mike Ross in St. Colman's College Fermoy|website=stcolmanscollege.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327085305/http://www.stcolmanscollege.com/mikeross/index.htm|archive-date=27 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[George Throssell]] (1840–1910), the second premier of Western Australia, was born in Fermoy.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* [[Una Troy]] (1910–1993), a novelist and playwright, was born in Fermoy.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Owen|first=Emma Mae|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47662382/both-tears-and-laughter-found-in-we/|title=Both Tears and Laughter Found in 'We Are Seven'|date=24 March 1957|work=The Jackson Sun|access-date=30 March 2020|pages=29|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
* [[Ted Walsh]], jockey and horse trainer, was born in Fermoy.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

==Film==
Some aerial scenes from 1966 war film ''[[The Blue Max]]'' were filmed near Fermoy, with the nearby [[Munster Blackwater|Blackwater]] viaduct featuring on screen.

In the 1980s, a [[coming-of-age film]] called ''[[The Clash of the Ash]]'' was shot in Fermoy.<ref>{{cite web | title=Clash of the Ash | work=TCD – Irish film and TV research | url=http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=56724 | access-date=20 October 2012 | archive-date=1 March 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301085329/http://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/showfilm.php?fid=56724 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFmTau71Ay8 | title = Clash of the Ash | publisher = RTÉ | via = YouTube | access-date = 28 October 2019 }}</ref>

==Twin towns==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in the Republic of Ireland}}

As of 2020, Fermoy is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with [[Ploemeur]], in the [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] region of France. The two towns have had connections since 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Fermoy-to-host-group-from-French-twin-town-ae6a37c3-3a10-4bec-bd2f-e3c282eee3e9-ds | publisher = The Echo | website = echolive.ie | title = Fermoy to host group from French twin town | date = 4 May 2017 | access-date = 14 October 2020 }}</ref>

From 2006 until 2020, Fermoy was twinned with [[Nowa Dęba]] in [[Poland]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40021034.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Fermoy threatens to sever ties with Polish town over LGBT+ stance | date = 23 July 2020 | access-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201014191023/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40021034.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishcentral.com/news/fermoy-twin-nowa-deba | website = irishcentral.com | title = Co Cork town ends twinning arrangement with Polish "LGBT-Free zone" | date = 13 October 2020 | access-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-date = 16 October 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201016093828/https://www.irishcentral.com/news/fermoy-twin-nowa-deba | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Twinning 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.infoveriti.pl/company/216947/ |title=KOMITET MIAST BLIŹNIACZYCH NOWA DĘBA – FERMOY – PLOEMEUR – KRS – InfoVeriti |work=infoveriti.pl |year=2011 |access-date=30 May 2011 |archive-date=24 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324191438/http://www.infoveriti.pl/company/216947/ |url-status=live }}</ref> When, in early 2020, it was brought to the attention of Fermoy's town council that Nowa Dęba had adopted resolutions against "[[LGBT ideology]]" and "propaganda", the council said that they would end the agreement if Nowa Dęba did not reverse its decision to declare itself an "[[LGBT-free zone]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gcn.ie/cork-town-issues-ultimatum-polish-twin-town-anti-lgbt-laws/|title=Cork town issues ultimatum to Polish twin town over anti-LGBT+ laws|date=2020-03-24|website=GCN|language=en|access-date=2020-03-25|archive-date=25 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325010411/https://gcn.ie/cork-town-issues-ultimatum-polish-twin-town-anti-lgbt-laws/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/fermoy-to-terminate-twinning-arrangement-with-lgbt-free-zone-town-in-poland-985991.html | publisher = Irish Examiner | website = irishexaminer.com | title = Fermoy to terminate twinning arrangement with 'LGBT-Free Zone' town in Poland | date = 5 March 2020 | access-date = 25 March 2020 | archive-date = 25 March 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200325105457/https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/fermoy-to-terminate-twinning-arrangement-with-lgbt-free-zone-town-in-poland-985991.html | url-status = live }}</ref> This did not happen, and Fermoy's town council terminated the twinning agreement in October 2020.<ref name="terminated">{{cite web | url = http://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetrzeszow/irlandzkie-miasto-zrywa-wspolprace-z-nowa-deba-z-powodu-uchwaly-przeciw-lgbt/df6zbc6,79cfc278 | language = pl | title = Irlandzkie miasto zrywa współpracę z Nową Dębą z powodu uchwały przeciw LGBT | access-date = 2020-10-14 | archive-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201014211806/https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetrzeszow/irlandzkie-miasto-zrywa-wspolprace-z-nowa-deba-z-powodu-uchwaly-przeciw-lgbt/df6zbc6,79cfc278 | url-status = live }}</ref> In January 2021, Nowa Dęba's council voted to revoke the controversial declaration; a decision welcomed by the LGBT community and activists.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetrzeszow/strefa-wolna-od-lgbt-uchylona-w-jednej-z-podkarpackich-gmin/ht937ql,79cfc278 | language = pl | title = Jedna z podkarpackich gmin uchyliła uchwałę o "strefie wolnej od LGBT" | access-date = 2021-01-28 | archive-date = 28 January 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210128153238/https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetrzeszow/strefa-wolna-od-lgbt-uchylona-w-jednej-z-podkarpackich-gmin/ht937ql,79cfc278 | url-status = live }}</ref>

==Sport==
[[Fermoy GAA]], the local [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] club, won the [[Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://gaacork.ie/premier-ifc-roll-of-honour/ | website = gaacork.ie | title = Premier IFC Roll of Honour | accessdate = 22 April 2022 }}</ref> The club's grounds, at ''Páirc Mhic Gearailt'', have hosted league and championship games.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

==Further reading==
* ''Fermoy on the Blackwater'', by Bill Power, 2009 (Brigown Press, 410 pages)
* ''Fermoy: A local history'', by Niall Brunicard (first published 1975)
* ''John Anderson of Fermoy, the forgotten benefactor'', by Niall Brunicardi, (first published 1983)
* ''To die by inches: An account of the Fermoy Poor Law Union during the Great Famine, 1845–1850'', by Edward Garner (first published 1986)
* ''[[Críchad an Chaoilli]]: Being the Topography of Ancient Fermoy'', by Patrick Power (first published 1932) ([[University College Cork]])
* ''A sketch of the Blackwater, from Youghal to Fermoy'', by [[Samuel Hayman]] (first published 1860)
* ''Fermoy, 1841 to 1890: A local history'', by Niall Brunicardi (first published 1978)
* ''The diary of Wilfrid Saxby Barham, captain "The Buffs," during the great war 1914–1915: Fermoy-Dover-Armentieres-Ypres'', by Wilfrid Saxby Barham (first published 1918)
* ''A sense of Fermoy'', by J.J. Bunyan (first published 1983)

==See also==
* [[List of abbeys and priories in the Republic of Ireland#County Cork|List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Cork)]]
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]
* [[Baron Fermoy]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Fermoy}}
* [http://www.avondhu.org Avondhu Heritage Archive, an audiovisual presentation of the heritage sites around Fermoy]
* [http://www.fermoy.ie/ Fermoy Website]
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| North = [[Mitchelstown]]
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| Northeast = [[Kilworth]]
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| West = [[Ballyhooly]]
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| East = [[Ballyduff, County Waterford|Ballyduff]]
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| Southwest = [[Glenville, County Cork|Glenville]]
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