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The head of the estuary, the final crossing-place of a river before its tidal waters become flanked by mud, inevitably attracts the growth or settlement.
Carrigaline is to the Owenabue river what Cork is to the river Lee, yet it was not from the river it took its name but from the limestone outcrop to the east, known in Irish as Carraig Ui Leighin. Here in Pre-Norman times a local Cheiftain named O'Leighin (o'Lyne/Lyons/Lane) must have had his stronghold.
Carrigaline originated as a typical sraid baile of simple harmonious houses at the lowest crossing point of the Owenabue river. Over a very short period its population expanded to accommodate the housing demand in the Cork metropolitan region.
